LOCAL
• TransLink briefing [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Unused Vancouver parking lot now a horn of plenty [Vancouver Courier]
• City Council sets sights on mega-development at 955 East Hastings [The Mainlander]
• Downtown Vancouver’s Nordstrom makeover to include hip gathering spaces [Vancouver Sun]
• Business groups push for improved transit funding [Globe and Mail]
• Perverse Priorities: Where we’re spending our money – or not [Price Tags]
• Dear Mayors: Road pricing is dead on arrival [Civic Surrey]
CANADA
• An Alarmingly Strong Link Between Lack of Walkability and Diabetes [The Atlantic Cities]
• Billions needed to save Canadian roads: infrastructure report card [OpenFile]
• Census reveals growth in high-rise apartments, especially in big cities [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• Visions of Sixth Street [The Architect’s Newspaper]
• Economic Downturn Cut Architecture Firm Revenue by 40 Percent, Employment by Almost a Third [AIA]
• How to Get Kids Excited About Building Better Neighborhoods? Try Minecraft [The Atlantic Cities]
• City living will feel like a blast from the past [USA Today]
• Walking the talk about walkable urban places [Crosscut]
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3 comments
You mistranscribed the Atlantic headline making it nonsensical. It actually reads
An Alarmingly Strong Link Between Lack of Walkability and Diabetes
LACK OF are the critical words missed
By all means delete this comment after you make the correction
Thanks Stephen….much appreciated. The Atlantic Cities actually wrote it incorrectly on their RSS feed. It was simply cut-and-paste. Nonetheless, the correction has been made. Thanks again!
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Hey, no worries – I got a whole new blog post out of it
http://stephenrees.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/another-reason-why-the-province-needs-to-fund-transit/