LOCAL
• City of Vancouver lease deal with non-profit housing groups draws admiration [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver Iron and Engineering Works – West 6th Avenue [Changing Vancouver]
• Even opponents think B.C. oil pipelines more likely after Liberal victory [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Victoria, Edmonton residents raise vegetables and fish using aquaponics [Vancouver Sun]
• Trans-poor-tation 3: No high five for I-5 [Crosscut]
CANADA
• SmartCentres hopes there is life after Walmart — Hume [Toronto Star]
• Hole in Champlain Bridge downplayed by feds [Montreal Gazette]
INTERNATIONAL
• The new Google Maps includes neat new transit comparisons [Buzzer Blog]
• Google Escalates the Competition in Map Services [New York Times]
• Bike Sharing Prepares to Get its World Rocked [Planetizen]
• Berlin: Barbie’s New Home [The Atlantic Cities]
• How to Save Water-Starved Cities [The Atlantic Cities]
• Jim Bassett: “Everyone a Tourist”: On the Photography of Monuments [Places from Design Observer]