LOCAL
• Vancouver orders heritage evaluation of Waldorf Hotel, places moratorium on demolition [Vancouver Sun]
• City of Vancouver pays $144k to CBC for unused downtown space [Vancouver Courier]
• Is saving the Waldorf a first step to preserving both the city’s body and soul? [Vancouver Sun]
• Arts community to push for space in any Waldorf site development [Globe and Mail]
• Terminal Vision: “Huge funky potential” [Price Tags]
• Holding the line in Central Lonsdale [Fraseropolis]
• Can We Count On Toll Revenue Forecasts? [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
• Your Warming World: a Global Analysis of Surface Temperatures [Information Aesthetics]
• What We Can Learn From the Largest Gathering in Human History [The Atlantic Cities]
• An affordable housing enclave that fits in, strengthens a neighborhood, and protects the environment [NRDC Switchboard]
• A New U.S. Grand Strategy [Foreign Policy]
• An Unlikely Success Story For Modern Architecture, Mies, And Detroit [Fast Company Co.Design]
• Slums and the future of cities [BBC]
• Beijing skylines yields dramatic view of choking city [New Scientist]
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