LOCAL
• Former planner looks to wide Vancouver streets for housing space [Vancouver Courier]
• Gastown’s “historic” 40-year-old cobblestones [OpenFile]
• 5 ideas to complete Holland Park [Civic Surrey]
CANADA
• Toronto goes outside city hall in picking chief planner [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• How the urbanism of small cities helped shape the Arab uprisings [The Global Urbanist]
• Survival Lessons From an Ancient Failed City [The Atlantic Cities]
• Japan could become second biggest solar power nation [New Scientist]
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