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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday

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LOCAL
• Vancouver Art Gallery advocate pushes forward with $300-million dream [Globe and Mail]
• Canada’s condo developers squeezing more function out of tiny spaces [Globe and Mail]
• 97 Water Street [Changing Vancouver]
• Wonk Challenge: What are the cycling trends in Vancouver? [Price Tags]
• Living the Happy City: A Seawall Completed [Vancouver Is Awesome]
• City of Vancouver finds serious problems with Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline application [Georgia Straight]
• David Suzuki: In the urban green revolution, small is big [Georgia Straight]
• Vancouver joins list opposed to expanded Kinder Morgan pipeline [Vancouver Sun]
• Parking spot battle costs others thousands, gets New Westminster couple kicked from condo [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver house that sold for $3-million in one day now faces bulldozer because it is too small [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Homeless Population Spikes in Abbotsford [The Tyee]
• Something has gone wrong in Portland [Bike Portland]
• SDOT to Pilot Red Bus Lanes [Seattle Transit Blog]
• Seattle’s Bus Buyback: Plans D and E [Sightline Daily]
• Mayor Murray Unveils Plan D [Seattle Transit Blog]

INTERNATIONAL
• 6 reasons why businesses should favor bike infrastructure over on street car parking [Blooming Rock]
• Philadelphia’s Newest Art Venue: The Amtrak Corridor [The Atlantic Cities]
• Tiny houses a way off the streets for Wisconsin homeless [Chicago Tribune]
• Welcome to Brčko, Europe’s only free city and a law unto itself [The Guardian Cities]
• Westwood Village: from free to paid parking [South Fraser Blog]