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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday

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LOCAL
• New developments in Vancouver far outpace what regional plan says population should grow by: residents [State of Vancouver]
• Fact Checking Vancouver Housing Growth Claims [Richard Campbell]
• Conflict in Marpole [Fraseropolis]
• Storify: Moving the Future – A New Conversation on Transportation and the Economy [Buzzer Blog]
• Would you buy a 100 square-foot micro home for $25K? [Metro News]
• 804 Granville Street [Changing Vancouver]

CASCADIA
• Victoria’s downtown boom: Population 7,170 and growing [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Monitor: Construction boom welcomes new residents to downtown Victoria [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Songhees First Nation eyes redevelopment of Esquimalt site [Victoria Times Colonist]

CANADA
• Pediatricians push to make helmets mandatory for cyclists of all ages [Toronto Star]
• The true costs of suburban sprawl [The Globe and Mail]
• ‘We are at the crossroads’: Former Chrétian Liberal Denis Coderre elected mayor of Montreal amid apathy, corruption [National Post]

INTERNATIONAL
• Long Barred from American Tracks, European Train Designs Could Get Rolling by 2015 [Next City]
• A Problem Statement about Problem Statements [Planetizen]
• As Hoboken bike share ends, Hudson County mulls its own program [NJ.com]
• How Republicans Killed America’s High-Speed Rail Plan [The Atlantic Cities]