LOCAL
• Transit Smackdown: Seattle vs. Portland vs. Vancouver [Sightline Daily]
• Vancouver prepares plan to renew ailing Chinatown [Vancouver Courier]
• Council to hear update on the proposed fate of the downtown viaducts Tuesday [OpenFile]
• Evergreen Line contract awarded [Vancouver Sun]
INTERNATIONAL
• Waterfront park design: getting better, but… [Crosscut]
• Multiple Families, One Roof [The Wall St. Journal]
• Deadly Beijing floods prompt [BBC]
• George Lucas’s Lesson to NIMBYs: Careful What You Wish For [The Atlantic Cities]
• Royer’s riposte to Mossback’s waterfront park story [Crosscut]
• Can the planet survive 10 billion people? [New Scientist]
• New Research Finds Urban Form Plays Little Role in Sustainability [The Atlantic Cities]
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