A “Double Tap” by Editors (Erick and Brendan) brings you twice the news this morning.
LOCAL
• What Vancouver gained by hosting the Olympics: Toderian [AtlanticCities]
• Vancouver postpones fate of viaducts until the fall [Vancouver Courier]
• Vancouver unveils plan to replace viaducts [Stephen Rees’s Blog] with ‘super road’, more housing [VancouverSun]
• Viaducts removal supported by most: staff report [OpenFile]
• New senior Vancouver city planner seen as consensus-builder [Globe and Mail]
• Point Grey seawall plan put off by park board [OpenFile]
• Playland launches digital camera scavenger hunt across Metro Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]
• Hundreds turn up at Vancouver meeting to protest pipeline plans [Vancouver Sun]
• The Steam Clock derided as fantasy of ye olde Gastown [OpenFile]
• A History of the Main Street SkyTrain Station [PriceTags]
• Creating the Terry Fox Memorial: Video [OpenFile]
CANADA
• New App mapping urban and rural natural capital by David Suzuki [Straight]
• Central Saanich to move against camp for former street people [TimesColonist]
• Feeding the Birds at the park not the best idea [OpenFile]
• A new chapter in book borrowing: Toronto’s Little Free Libraries [Torontoist]
• Urban Hacktivists Take Over Street Ads In Toronto [The Pop-Up City]
• Dimming future for Toronto’s most famous neon sign, Sam The Record Man [Torontoist]
• Green Roofs sprouting on Ottawa’s Schools and Condos [OpenFile]
• Montreal Metro’s amazing wooden break shoes [STM SocietyInMotion]
INTERNATIONAL
• Unleash our kids: Paranoid parents are killing cities [Salon]
• In Queens an urban oasis sprouts amid 16 lanes of traffic [WallStreetJournal]
• A history of debate of the “War on the Car” [NPR]
• Global resources stock check [BBC]
• New San Francisco legislation will jump-start urban farming [Grist]
• China Crowdmaps Pedestrian and Cyclist Problem Areas [The Atlantic Cities]
• Copenhagen’s compelling case for bike superhighways [Crosscut]
• In Defense of ‘Vibrancy’ (And beer) [PlaceMakers]
• Officially Celebrating Graffiti in Paris [AtlanticCities]
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