LOCAL
• New Westminster’s parkade problem [Metro 604]
• Transit tax measure: Likely failure? Then why start? [Price Tags]
• Question: Can a tax referendum be won? [Price Tags]
• Vancouver: Driving Drops … again [Price Tags]
• Northern Voice 2013 [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Developing Story: Oakridge rezoning takes next step [Vancouver Courier]
• City of Vancouver approves more separated bike lanes [Vancouver Courier]
• Members rally around WISE Hall [Vancouver Courier]
• Historic Vancouver elementary building in leasing limbo [Vancouver Courier]
• Carbon emissions a factor in Metro Vancouver opposition to coal port [Vancouver Sun]
• Rogers plans three tall cell towers in West Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver to reconsider bike path plans on Union Street [Vancouver Sun]
• Donald Trump’s Vancouver visit next week confirms speculation about tower [Vancouver Sun]
• Vaughn Palmer: Under B.C.’s new cabinet, balance of power shifts away from the city [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Charles Wolfe: ‘Urbanism Without Effort’ [Town Hall Seattle]
CANADA
• Is a large retail store the threat Kensington defenders say it is, or just a place to buy cheap coffee? [National Post]
INTERNATIONAL
• Turkey’s leader agrees to halt park project [Los Angeles Times]
• ONE PARK TO BIND THEM ALL [Architect’s Newspaper]
• Building Hyperdensity and Civic Delight [Places: Design Observer]
• Starting Apple Computer in a garage was against the law [Greater Greater Washington]
• Peering into the North Korean economy, via satellite [BBC]
• A Real-Time Bike-Share Map for the Entire World [The Atlantic Cities]
• In the 8th Century, the Egyptian City of Thonis Fell Into the Sea [The Atlantic Cities]
• In Student Housing, Luxuries Overshadow Studying [New York Times]
• Nuclear Plants, Old and Uncompetitive, Are Closing Earlier Than Expected [New York Times]