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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

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LOCAL
• New Westminster paves way for Front Street parkade demolition [Vancouvr Sun]
• Cash-strapped TransLink can’t keep up with growth [Globe and Mail]
• The Landscaping of Vancouver’s Cycle Tracks [Price Tags]
• Vancouver real-estate prices to slump: Hong Kong analyst [Times-Colonist]
• City hurdles made east Vancouver co-housing project difficult, architect says [Vancouver Sun]
• White Rock green-space ideas mulled [Peace Arch News]

CASCADIA
• Rethinking Dockside Green [Rethink Urban]
• Should Oregon Cities Be Allowed to Mandate Affordable Housing? [The Portland Mercury]
• 10 takeaways from TriMet’s just-approved $607 million budget [The Oregonian]
• A Walmart Free Portland [The New Yorker]

CANADA
•  Mysterious artist plots to deter criminals with childhood nostalgia on Neighbourhood Watch signs [National Post]

INTERNATIONAL
• Responding to Transit Funding Criticism [Planetizen]
• 15 ways that self-driving cars could transform our lives [Vox]
• Biking to Work Increases 60 Percent Over Last Decade, Census Bureau Reports [US Census Bureau]
• People-oriented Cities: Demystifying transit-oriented development [The City Fix]
• Why Some Cities Shouldn’t Give Up on the Olympics [City Lab]