LOCAL
• Compass card: more about the region’s new fare system [The Buzzer Blog]
• TransLink promotes fare system overhaul to public [Vancouver Sun]
• Modernity at play in new Kitchener school [Vancouver Courier]
• Ending the False Debate about Save-On-Meats [The Mainlander]
CANADA
• Toronto leading the western world in high highrise development [The Star]
INTERNATIONAL
• D.C. aims to create sustainable ‘living building’ [The Washington Post]
• How to Make Privately Owned Public Spaces Truly Open to the Public [The Atlantic Cities]
• Fairy Tale Architecture: Snowflake [Places: Design Observer]
• What leaked IPCC report really says on climate change [New Scientist]
• Architects and the Public Health Imperative [Metropolis POV Blog]
• Peace in a pod: How tiny apartments could reshape the big city [Grist]
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