LOCAL
• B.C. Housing pledges to fix problems at low-income rentals [Vancouver Courier]
• Six-storey buildings at Main and 33rd too high, residents say [Vancouver Sun]
• “God created transit” [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
• Tallest building in the West to be built in downtown L.A. [The Los Angeles Times]
• Putin’s Vision of Olympic Glory Meets a More Earthbound Reality in Sochi [The New York Times]
• SimCity for the Second City [Next City]
• Child Poverty Rates Are Especially High in Small Cities [The Atlantic Cities]
• Sooty ships may be geoengineering by accident [New Scientist]
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