LOCAL
• The top 5 most wacky transit stories of 2012 [The Buzzer Blog]
• Development tests the upper limits in Vancouver’s Grandview-Woodland [Globe and Mail]
• Park board moves to change ‘antiquated’ community centre funding model [Vancouver Sun]
• Which four global cities beat Vancouver in quality-of-living rankings? [Globe and Mail]
• UBC anxiety ramps up at talk of a two-phase approach to building Broadway rapid-transit line [State of Vancouver]
• Vancouver’s First 360 Degree GigaPixel Photo [Miss 604]
• Evidence of Declining Traffic from All Over [Price Tags]
• New, safer streets coming to Downtown soon [Civic Surrey]
INTERNATIONAL
• New York City officials, developers to break ground on $15 billion mini-city Hudson Yards [New York Daily News]
• Landscape Architecture’s Ascendance [The Architect’s Newspaper]
• Voters Approve $85 Million Downtown Streetcar Tax [Los Angeles Downtown News]
• What Jane Jacobs Got Wrong About Urban Economies [The Atlantic Cities]
• Cigarette butts help urban birds ward off mites [New Scientist]
• Venice: from Gated Lagoon to Bioregion [Observatory: Design Observer]
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