LOCAL
• Vancouver’s Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates 40,000 trees planted throughout city [Vancouver Sun]
• Marpole transportation under examination [Vancouver Courier]
• Translink 2013 Supplemental Plan [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Subway line for Broadway corridor is best option but also most expensive, UBC study says [Vancouver Sun]
• Transit Report Forces Vancouver to Ask: How Will We Live? [The Tyee]
• Transit fuelling Burnaby’s growth [Globe and Mail]
CANADA
• Toronto’s new chief planner is a breath of fresh air in a stuffy bureaucracy [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• Patient Urbanism – Build Neighborhoods Without High Debt [Original Green]
• Visualizing a Walkable City [POLIS]
• Not All Density Is Created Equal [The Atlantic Cities]
• Housing and Hope: The Future as Cultural Fact [Places: Design Observer]
• Portland retailers swoop into storefronts along bikeways [Green Lane Project]
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