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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Monday

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LOCAL
• In high-cost Vancouver, the trick is getting strangers to pay the mortgage [Globe and Mail]
• Rebirth of a century-old B.C. theatre signals sea change for the arts [Globe and Mail]
• Conceptual designs for $37-million skytrain metrotown station renovation [Vancity Buzz]
• Hornby Street – 800 block [Changing Vancouver]
• Vancouver Most Walkable in Canada …. Again [Price Tags]
• The Rise of the Urban Forest [Price Tags]
• Just possibly the most profitable new building in Vancouver [Price Tags]
• Tsawwassen and Point Roberts residents continue to fight radio towers [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Transportation minister says there are no plans to close Nanaimo ferry terminal [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Seattle with an 80m Sea Level Rise [Seattle Transit Blog]

CANADA
• More density downtown will cut down on gridlock: Hume [Toronto Star]

INTERNATIONAL
• Does riding public transit make you happy? [Seattle Transit Blog]
• Enjoy Some Extremely Tiny Living In These 173-Square-Foot Micro Apartments [Fast Co.Exist]
• America’s Neglect of its Railroads Is Turning Deadly [The Atlantic Cities]
• A Tower in Manhattan [Places from Design Observer]
• Over 1,000 cyclists stage die-in protest outside Transport for London HQ [The Guardian]