LOCAL
• Binning House sale sparks court challenge [Globe and Mail]
• Park lovers debate as silt fills Stanley Park’s Beaver Lake [Globe and Mail]
• Road pricing: What’s not to love? [Vancouver Sun]
• The 300th Vehicle [Price Tags]
• Motordom Strategy #5: Promise but never pay for transit [Price Tags]
• Quote: “Don’t do the referendum, for god’s sake” [Price Tags]
• Custom transit, HandyDART, and the Taxi Pilot Project: what’s going on? [Buzzer Blog]
• 438 West Pender Street [Changing Vancouver]
• Winter shelters opening for Vancouver’s homeless: Come out of the cold [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver’s growth propelled by the dynamic of a new generation [Vancouver Sun]
• How Urban Design Influences How Many Friends You Have [Fast Co.Exist]
CASCADIA
• Entrepreneurs pin hopes on courier service with futuristic velomobile [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Abbotsford gives homeless protest camp two days to tear down [Vancouver Sun]
• Seattle’s Hotel de Gink [Crosscut]
• Why downtown would be safer as a surveillance state [Crosscut]
• Downtown Portland office building, a pioneer in modern design, sold for $41 million [Oregon Live]
• Sound Transit: Go to the Density [Seattle Transit Blog]
CANADA
• Diman developers usher in brave new Halifax [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• Portugal’s Ghost Roads [Financial Times]
• Task force to compile database in Detroit blight fight [Detroit News]
• A Stroll Around the World [New York Times]