LOCAL
• Condo creep comes right to the doorstep of Vancouver city hall with building by White Spot family empire [State of Vancouver]
• Old growth logging vs the carbon tax [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Pidgin’s past: a track record of profiteering at our expense [The Mainlander]
INTERNATIONAL
• Eternal Spring: The Immortality of the American Shopping Mall [Bullett]
• The Emergence of Container Urbanism [Places: Design Observer]
• Google’s New Built-from-Scratch Googleplex [Vanity Fair]
• Politics for Ecosystems and Biodiversity [Sustainable Cities Collective]
• Does Light Rail Really Encourage People to Stop Driving? [The Atlantic Cities]
• Picturing 10 urban qualities central to every city [Crosscut]
***