LOCAL
• Vancouver sells Olympic village condos, recovers millions in debt [Globe and Mail]
• Olympic Village proves to be a costly lesson for Vancouver [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver sells Olympic Village condos to Aquilini Group [Georgia Straight]
• Warning – 2: Olympics as War (Or, What Vancouver escaped) [Price Tags]
• Fracking comes to the world’s ‘greenest city’ [Al Jazeera]
• Edotiral | What we are talking about when we talk about bylaw ticketing in the Downtown Eastside [The Mainlander]
• New report on transit imbalance in Metro Vancouver [South Fraser Blog]
• Going Full Circle: Commercial Development in the Township of Langley [South Fraser Blog]
• From Red to Black, but Olympic Village Far from Gold [The Tyee]
• Placemaking comes to Vancouver [Vancouver Sun]
• Vaughn Palmer: Dianne Watts goes out on a winning note [Vancouver Sun]
• Poll: Surrey voters weigh in on race for mayor’s seat [Vancouver Sun]
• Proponents defend $517-million incinerator as “least costly” way to deal with garbage [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver to call on federal government for open hearings in Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion review [Vancouver Observer]
CASCADIA
• ‘Living wage’ rises in Victoria making life here less affordable [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Capital region sewage plan soundly rejected: poll [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Home demolition concerns prompt Portland to explore ‘courtesy notification’ [The Oregonian]
• Both Parties to Blame for Metro’s Crisis [Seattle Transit Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
• Is Tourism Ruining Barcelona? [The Atlantic Cities]
• Google says self-driving car can predict gestures, movement of bike riders [Bike Portland]
• The World Cup and Olympics threaten to overwhelm Rio – yet there is time to create a sensation out of disaster [The Guardian]
• The First Look at How Google’s Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets [The Atlantic Cities]
• Interfacing Urban Intelligence [Places from Design Observer]
• The Millennial Housing Shortage Fallacy [Corner Side Yard]