LOCAL
• Dianne Watts announces stepping down from throne; now the scramble begins [State of Vancouver]
• Vancouver stages good-news presser about Olympic Village debt, but raises a dust storm of questions about numbers [State of Vancouver]
• Architects behind Tate Modern chosen to design new Vancouver Art Gallery [Globe and Mail]
• Beautiful Boxes: The Galleries of Herzog & de Meuron [Price Tags]
• Metro Vancouver to vote on Southlands farmland in Delta [Georgia Straight]
• Vancouver Art Gallery selects Herzog & de Meuron as architect for new facility [Georgia Straight]
• Vision Vancouver to set number of candidates for fall election [Georgia Straight]
• Heather Place rezoning: City Council approves new family rental housing complex [Vancouver Observer]
• City of Vancouver sells Olympic Village stake to Aquilini Group [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver Art Gallery chooses Herzog & de Meuron to design new building [Vancouver Sun]
• COPE proposes new Vancouver housing authority [Vancouver Sun]
• Park board to make Vancouver more inclusive for transgender people [Vancouver Sun]
• White Rock city workers issue 72-hour strike notice, plan to shut down City Hall [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• Give Metro voters a positive spin next time [Seattle Times]
• Have a say on Inner Harbour sites [Victoria Times Colonist]
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• Three lessons from Calgary’s sudden leap to become a bike-lane leader [People for Bikes]
• How To Justify Converting Parking Lanes into Bike Lanes [Planetizen]
CANADA
• Mobility in Cities is About Space – Proven Powerfully in Pictures! [Planetizen]
• Cycle path fails around the world [The Guardian]
• How Helsinki Became the Most Successful Open-Data City in the World [The Atlantic Cities]