LOCAL
• Arts community celebrates as Vancouver city council endorses plan for new gallery [Vancouver Sun]
• Visionary mayor Art Phillips remade Vancouver [Globe and Mail]
• City land deal gives green light for a new Vancouver Art Gallery [Globe and Mail]
• Free Coffee at Translink [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
BC ELECTION
• Dix says NDP will try to sell BC Place to cover PAVCO debt [Vancouver Sun]
• B.C. Place for sale if NDP takes power [The Vancouver Courier]
• Housing: Where will the NDP lead us in the next four years? [The Mainlander]
INTERNATIONAL
• How Sprawl Made This Week’s Devastating Midwestern Floods Worse [The Atlantic Cities]
• Children of the 1980s Build Their Cities of Tomorrow [Smithsonian]
• DECK THIS! A West Loop master plan calls for a park on top of Chicago’s Kennedy Expressway [The Architect’s Newspaper]