LOCAL
• Plan for new Vancouver Art Gallery still faces significant hurdles [Vancouver Sun]
• Surrey casino, Chapter 3: Surrey councillors speak out about the botched process, why they supported a casino, and the tough conversations ahead for the Surrey First party [State of Vancouver]
• Clouds of Change Report online – with thoughts from a venture capitalist [Price Tags]
• Councillor Rasode on why she, and three others, supported the casino [Civic Surrey]
• Port Authority: Climate change not our problem [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• The New Surrey: Developing six cities at once [Vancouver Sun]
CANADA
• ‘Echo Boomers’ revitalize Toronto’s downtown core [The Toronto Star]
• Rob Ford Is Still the Mayor of Toronto [The Atlantic Cities]
INTERNATIONAL
• Seattle Architects Design First U.S. Office Building Without A Carbon Footprint, Break The Law While Doing So [Architizer]
• 10 Principles for Liveable High Density Cities: Lessons from Singapore [ULI]
• There’s a Planning App for That [Planetizen]
• The digital map is not the territory [New Scientist]
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