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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

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LOCAL
• Count shows fewer sleeping on Vancouver streets [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver’s Class A office now Canada’s costliest [Vancouver Sun]
• Video: Canada’s smallest condos debut in Surrey, B.C. [Globe and Mail]
• Mayor says referendums would paralyze transportation projects [Vancouver Courier]
• Street homelessness declining in Vancouver, City says [Vancouver Observer]

ART GALLERY
• Mayor Robertson to back report recommending 99-year lease for VAG [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver Art Gallery’s new fundraising plan [Globe and Mail]
• Daphne Bramham: New art gallery is long overdue [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• The Columbia River Crossing: Sightline’s Greatest Hits [Sightline Institute]
• House transportation bill supports Columbia River bridge with light rail [Crosscut]
• Density done right: One corner, two houses [Crosscut]
• Fearing parking loss, downtown business group stops ‘Street Seats’ program [Bike Portland]

CANADA
• Toronto will ‘absolutely not’ subsidize BIXI bike share system, says Mayor Rob Ford [National Post]

INTERNATIONAL
• Imagining the World’s Cities in the Ocean-Dominated ‘Hunger Games’ Universe [The Atlantic Cities]
• An Argentine Tradition Threatens to Crumble With City Architecture [New York Times]