LOCAL
• Greens step up efforts to get seats on Vancouver council, COPE sets new policy [State of Vancouver]
• Gastown renewal project fuses heritage with hip [Globe and Mail]
• Gastown Reinventing Itself Again: Heritage and Hip [Price Tags]
• Should absentee owners pay for affordable housing? [Georgia Straight]
• Marpole community plan to go before Vancouver council [Georgia Straight]
• ‘We Were Seen as Quite Scary’: PHS’s Townsend [The Tyee]
• The Brookswood Community Plan, what went wrong? [South Fraser Blog]
• In a city full of Starbucks, some Vancouver neighbourhoods have none [Vancouver Sun]
• $500-million Metro Vancouver project blends residential, commercial and light industrial [Vancouver Sun]
• Video: Vancouver Parks Board planning gender-neutral bathroom facilities [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Seattle – 1: Boom [Price Tags]
• Seattle – 2: Bust [Price Tags]
• Seattle – 3: “Urbanism Without Effort” [Price Tags]
• Gallery: Here’s how Portlanders store their bikes at home [Bike Portland]
• Powell -Division Rapid Transit Inspection [Portland Transit Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
• Metropolitan areas are now fueling virtually all of America’s population growth [Washington Post]
• Transit riders assail proposed Metro fare hike at public hearing [Los Angeles Times]
• 6 New Cities Join A Program To Kickstart Better Bike Lanes [Fast Co.Exist]
• Photographing a Decade of Change in New York City Storefronts [The Atlantic Cities]