LOCAL
• Demand for online-sellers distribution space makes developers look hungrily at farmland [State of Vancouver]
• Vancouver’s civic scene undergoing upheaval as COPE morphs, NPA spends money aggressively, and little parties bloom [State of Vancouver]
• City council hears Vancouver operating budget details [Georgia Straight]
• New B.C. Place casino proposal resurrects Vancouver Not Vegas critics [Georgia Straight]
• Portrait of Vancouver’s Vanishing Character Homes [The Tyee]
• Vancouver proposes modest tax increases for 2014 [Vancouver Sun]
• Developer targets farmland near Delta terminal [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver city council to vote on pre-paid parking initiative aimed at drinking drivers [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver Not Vegas calls for halt to casino development due to doubling of problem gamblers [Vancouver Observer]
CASCADIA
• A towering controversy in the Rainier Valley [Crosscut]
• Student project could become two-way buffered bike lane in Eugene [Bike Portland]
• New nonprofit ‘Move Oregon’ launches with vision of car-lite prosperity [Bike Portland]
• The Reality of a Seattle Transit Agency [Seattle Transit Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
• A Neighborhood’s Profound Divide [New York Times]
• Towering imagination of a polymath architect-engineer [New Scientist]
• A Beautiful New Public Transit Map Shows How New York and New Jersey Connect [The Atlantic Cities]
• Life of the Party [Places by Design Observer]
• What Will Be Mandela’s Spatial Legacy? [Arch Daily]