LOCAL
• Gregor Robertson hosts Twitter townhall on Vancouver housing [Vancouver Sun]
• Notes from the SFU City Conversation about TransLink funding [The Buzzer Blog]
• Metro Vancouver seeks more transit influence [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Imagine Walking Down to the Corner to Pick Your Own Apple [The Atlantic Cities]
• Vancouver mayor won’t ‘force’ thin streets on any neighbourhood [Vancouver Courier]
• A quarter of Metro Vancouver residents know a homeless person or someone who was homeless: survey [Vancouver Sun]
• The City of Surrey, tourist trams, and the Fraser Valley Heritage Rail Society: An overview [Civic Surrey]
CANADA
• Extreme makeover: Toronto’s density challenges [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• The Birth of Sprawl: How Ending the Great Depression Meant Inventing the Suburbs [KCET Departures]
• New school building designs hit by curve ban [The Guardian]
• Design Critics: Landscape Architects Can Take the Lead in Designing Cities [The Dirt]
• This November, San Francisco Could Get a Little More Affordable [Next American City]
• 5 Reasons Germans Ride 5 Times More Mass Transit Than Americans [The Atlantic Cities]
• Living in Ordered Exhibition in Mies van der Rohe’s Lafayette Park [Places: Design Observer]
• The Helmet Debate Heats Up [Price Tags]
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