LOCAL
• Marpole shipyard building quietly demolished [Vancouver Courier]
• Vancouver invests $50,000 to develop bike helmet dispenser [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver’s downtown office-tower boom: It couldn’t go on forever, so half of current projects will likely wait a few years [State of Vancouver]
• Maps, Maps, and more Maps [What Floats to the Top of My Desk]
INTERNATIONAL
• Gentrification no longer a dirty word [San Francisco Chronicle]
• California Carbon Permits Sell Above Expected Clearing Price [Bloomberg News]
• Mariana Van Rensselaer and the Rise of Architecture Criticism [Places: Design Observer]
• The Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax [The New York Times]
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