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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday

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LOCAL
• Farmers markets feed local food economy [Vancouver Sun]
• TED Talk: How to solve traffic jams [Price Tags]
• Resdiscovered Art Projects: Leeside Tunnel, Spencer Murals [Price Tags]
• One picture worth a thousand words [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• City considering heritage status for Waldorf Hotel [Vancouver Courier]
• Pride Parade seeks civic status [Vancouver Courier]
• Non-profits to tackle low-cost housing in Vancouver [Globe and Mail]
• Sprucing up Evergreen stations with art [Tri-City News]

CASCADIA
• Alley Movie Nights: Can you say urbanism without effort? [Crosscut]
• Big energy firm still hungry after backing out of OR coal plan [Crosscut]
• CRD rejects smoking ban for capital region parks, beaches [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Forum to roll out facts, figures on Portland’s bike-share program [Portland Press Herald]

CANADA
• Signs of the times gone by: old Toronto street markers might be for sale soon [Toronto Star]

INTERNATIONAL
• Beijing Puzzles Over Urban Growth [Wall Street Journal]
• Study: Walkable Infill Development a Goldmine for City Governments [DC Streets Blog]
• A Live Map of the Manic Ways People Edit Wikipedia [The Atlantic Cities]
• Powering Ohio Schools With Wind Energy [The Atlantic City]
• After Plant Explosion, Texas Remains Wary of Regulation [New York Times]
• Temple of the Vanities [Places: Design Observer]