LOCAL
• At Vancouver’s ‘Cold Harbour’ a neighbourhood hollows out [Globe and Mail]
• Climate Refugees: The first wave [Price Tags]
• • 12th & Cambie: Life for Metro Vancouver poor not improving [Vancouver Courier]
• Independent video centre forced to move from headquarters on Vancouver’s trendy Main Street [Vancouver Sun]
• NDP housing platform promises disaster for the Downtown Eastside [The Mainlander]
• 52 and 156 West Hastings [Changing Vancouver]
• Super 8 time machine: Bike ride through 1974 Vancouver [Vancouver Observer]
• Renowned BC ecologist says public hearings into proposed coal facility not enough [Vancouver Observer]
CASCADIA
• Seattle’s women are not worth less [Crosscut]
• Election firsts: Drive-thru voting bays in Comox, as well as polling station at Kelowna airport [Vancouver Sun]
• Seattle police loosen rules on pot, tattoos for new officer recruits [Oregon Live]
CANADA
• Torontonians cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent: Porter [Toronto Star]
• ‘I’ll hold them accountable’: Rob Ford lobs political threats at councillors willing to consider taxes to fund [National Post]
• Future of Mount Royal to be discussed by city, group next month [Montreal Gazette]
• Stintz wants city to integrate bike-share system into TTC, while Ford calls BIXI an utter ‘failure’ [National Post]
INTERNATIONAL
• The Potential Perils of Rapid-Fire Urbanization [The Atlantic Cities]
• Why Your ‘Green Lifestyle’ Choices Don’t Really Matter [The Atlantic Cities]
• The 10 Greatest US Public Markets That Met the Wrecking Ball[Project for Public Spaces]
• Nations are no longer driving globalization — cities are [Quartz]
• Let’s go from ‘public housing’ to ‘social housing’ [The Washington Post]
• Hong Kong, Looking Up [Price Tags]
• California Milestone: The shift from single-family [Price Tags]