LOCAL
• Musqueam block traffic at Marpole Midden redevelopment protest [CBC]
• City of Vancouver to offer six City-owned sites for affordable rental housing [Vancouver Observer]
• To Save Our Ecology, We Must Move Beyond Hope [The Tyee]
• Building one’s own community [Burnaby Now]
• In Memoriam of outspoken former park board commissioner Jim Harvey [Courier]
• New City farmers get a hand with Young Agrarians program [The Straight]
CANADA
• Leaner, faster friendly: How cops on bikes are good for cities [OpenFile]
• Toronto’s Pan Am Games, city form, and a commitment to fitness [Globe and Mail]
• Bill Rees slams Harper over Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline [The Straight]
• Toronto Port Lands five-phase revitalization plan to take 30 years [Globe and Mail]
• 6 U.S. retailers set to invade Canada’s malls [CBC]
INTERNATIONAL
• Startups Are Revamping Government in San Francisco [Mashable]
• Subdivisions without a pulse [Better! Cities & Towns]
• Top Architectural Record award for Guangzhou Opera House? Really? [Archinect]
• On Clean Drinking Water in Lagos: Many Options, Few Solutions [Sustainable Cities Collective]
• Addition of the Day: Portland Installs Nation’s First Bike Counter [The Atlantic Cities]
• Downtown living breeds churches [Crosscut]
• 2012 shaping up to be hottest year on record in the US [New Scientist]
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