LOCAL
• Vancouver planning manager faces anger over community plans [Globe and Mail]
• Community gardens, reclaimed streets highlight Vancouver’s urban summer [Globe and Mail]
• The newly renovated Newton Exchange is now open! [The Buzzer Blog]
• Upcycled Urbanism on Granville [Price Tags]
• The Vancouver Art Gallery and the Eviction of a Political Idea | Part I [The Mainlander]
• Vancouver’s Pursuit of Happiness [The Tyee]
• Test-drive TransLink’s Compass Cards [Vancouver Observer]
• Surrey denies plan to pave section of Bear Creek Park for temple parking [Vancouver Sun]
• Frances Beat Me To It [What Floats to the Top of My Desk]
CASCADIA
• Bring Back the Boarding House [Sightline Daily]
• Esquimalt rejects CRD sewage plan for McLoughlin Point, pushes issue to province [Victoria Times Colonist]
• The lost vision for east Portland’s Gateway [Oregon Live]
• Seattle business owner puts up homemade outhouses in Pioneer Square [My Northwest]
INTERNATIONAL
• Last Car Plant Brings Detroit Hope and Cash [New York Times]
• New Rent Laws Aim to Keep Paris From Becoming Only for the Rich [The Atlantic Cities]
• Centuries-Old Gardens Are the Latest Battleground in Istanbul [The Atlantic Cities]
• The Unsettling Link Between Sprawl and Suicide [The Atlantic Cities]
• ‘No place for cars’ in cities of the future [The Times UK]
• The High Cost of Free Curb and Gutter [Planetizen]