LOCAL
• How British Columbia trumped California for Olympics of ideas [Vancouver Observer]
• Port Metro Vancouver and region square off over farmland [Vancouver Sun]
• 13 community centre associations of 20 ready to negotiate with park board to figure out a way to share revenue [State of Vancouver]
• Metro Vancouver mayors lay out transit funding ideas [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
INTERNATIONAL
• The Study That Could Upend Everything We Thought We Knew About Declining Urban Crime [The Atlantic Cities]
• Power to the Parklet [The Architect’s Newspaper]
• The Lost Downtown Demographic [Global Site Plans – The Grid]
• Why Walkability isn’t Just About Proximity to Shops [thisbigcity.net]
• Market Street overhaul rethinks Mission too [San Francisco Chronicle]
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