LOCAL
• Downtown Eastside plan “is at least a start,” say residents [State of Vancouver]
• Years of tension preceded current messy situation between PHS Community Services and province [State of Vancouver]
• Province takes control of the Downtown Eastside’s PHS, housing, injection site as founders agree to step aside [Vancouver Sun]
• 262 East Georgia Street [Changing Vancouver]
• Vancouver non-profit housing group’s programs will be protected, minister says [Globe and Mail]
• Got some change for the Downtown Eastside? [Globe and Mail]
• Brentwood growth could help maintain quality of life: Price [Burnaby News Leader]
• Dropping Traffic and Future Congestion at Oakridge [Price Tags]
• TransLink referendum date still up in the air [Georgia Straight]
• Incoming Portland Hotel Society board members have strong ties to Vancouver Coastal Health [Georgia Straight]
• Proposed downtown Vancouver development aims to reshape public space [Georgia Straight]
• Port Metro Vancouver and sustainability: beyond its operations [South Fraser Blog]
• Vancouver Observer goes to North America’s “Greenest City” to see how it handles garbage: VIDEO [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver office buildings share their storied past with a dynamic present [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• The Orange Line might secretly be Portland’s biggest bike project ever [Bike Portland]
• Canadian developer to build 1,945 residential units in South Lake Union [Puget Sound Business Journal]
INTERNATIONAL
• City main street networks show a drastic shift away from historic patterns of human-scale design [LSE]
• In World’s Best-Run Economy, House Prices Keep Falling — Because That’s What House Prices Are Supposed To Do [Forbes]
• Bricks or Bullets? Obama Chooses Defense Over Housing [Planetizen]
• London’s Century-Old Idea to Address Its Affordable Housing Crisis [The Atlantic Cities]
• Two Chicagos, Defined [Corner Side Yard]