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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Saturday

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LOCAL
• Metro Vancouver mayors vie for the keys to TransLink [Vancouver Sun]
• The ‘great unoccupied condo scandal’? Get over it [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver architects cheer laneway boom [Globe and Mail]
• Hunger striker vows to protest gentrification [Globe and Mail]
• Life on Transit: Young people choosing public transit over a driver’s license [The Buzzer Blog]
• Living cheap, living rich: Vancouver’s collective housing scene beats sky-high rents [Vancouver Observer]
• Restore elected control of TransLink [Stephen Rees’s Blog]

CANADA
• Kitimat attracts attention as B.C.’s next potential boom town [Vancouver Sun]
• ‘Tall wood’ advocate joins Prince George project [Globe and Mail]
• To pave or not to pave: Montreal’s potholes at centre of battle between mayor and city council [National Post]

INTERNATIONAL
• Why Your Skyrocketing Rent is Bad For the Economy [The Atlantic Cities]
• Car Exhaust Hurts Children as Much as Second-Hand Smoke [The Atlantic Cities]
• Iceland Baffled by Chinese Plan for Golf Resort [New York Times]