LOCAL
• Vancouver Art Gallery shortlists five architecture firms for new building, all international [State of Vancouver]
• What’s New: A highrise in the West End [Price Tags]
• Dispute over Kitsilano bike path scheduled to enter the B.C. Supreme Court in March [Georgia Straight]
• Vancouver Art Gallery announces five architectural firms as finalists for design of new building [Georgia Straight]
• For carbon footprints, it’s location, location, lifestyle [Georgia Straight]
• What’s so cool about Vancouver’s Armoury District? [Vancouver Observer]
CASCADIA
• Rockland Avenue block set to close for a year [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Southwest Corridor Rapid Transit: Elected officials, activists spar at transportation forum [Oregon Live]
• Westlake businesses hold the city’s bike plan hostage [Crosscut]
CANADA
• Alberta simply doesn’t need a bullet train [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• These Are The Cities Where People Walk The Most [Fast Co.Exist]
• A Race for More Than the Mayor of Istanbul [New York Times]
• Washington, New York looking to a future without farecards [Washington Post]
• Urbanization Has Been Destroying the Environment Since the Very First Cities [Smithsonian Magazine]