LOCAL
• TransLink unveils first of many faregates at Marine Dr Station [Globe & Mail] [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver’s rental housing plan not affordable: Renters’ Union [The Tyee]
• Robertson eyes business opportunities in wake of London Olympics [Globe & Mail]
• Stinkin’ Summer in the East Village [OpenFile]
CANADA
• Is densification working for Canadian cities? [Macleans]
• Extra long buses coming to the Toronto Transit Commission [Toronto Now]
• Calgary’s Great Hail of 2012 [OpenFile]
• Through punishing drought farmers making gains with solar power [CBC]
INTERNATIONAL
• China’s cities are making the same mistakes America made on the path to superpower status [Foreign Policy]
• Nobody home at suburban office parks [Chicago Sun Times]
• So why don’t we change them into walkable centres? [Better Towns & Cities]
• Can all-women cities solve Saudi Arabia’s productivity problem? [Atalantic Cities]
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