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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Friday

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LOCAL
• Vancouver is least affordable city to buy a house in Canada: RBC [Vancouver Sun]
• Grandview-Woodland: Neighbourhood at a Glance [Vancouver Courier]
• Grandview-Woodland: Neighbourhood numbers [Vancouver Courier]
• Grandview-Woodland: ‘Ghost’ sign resurfaces at pizzeria [Vancouver Courier]
• Citizens outraged over lack of public consultation on coal export expansions [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver’s most expensive apartment is Batman-worthy [Vancouver Observer]
• Moving On From Gentrification to ‘Shared Neighborhoods’ [Huffington Post]

I-5 BRIDGE COLLAPSE
• Span wasn’t built to take critical hit [Seattle Times]
• Why Did The Washington I-5 Bridge Collapse And How Did Everyone Survive? [Science World Report]
• How WSDOT can manage the I-5 collapse [Crosscut]

CASCADIA
• Urban Ruins: Does Seattle need a High Line? [Crosscut]
• With Portland’s Latest Rejection of Fluoride, Science Loses Out to History’s Weirdest Alliance of Paranoiacs [The Atlantic Cities]
• Sign declaring new name for Mount Douglas will stay for now [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Redmond’s Rain Garden Challenge [The Sightline Daily]

CANADA
• The rental-housing shortage is now a national disaster. It needs Ottawa’s help [Globe and Mail]

INTERNATIONAL
• U.S. Cities Growing Faster Than Suburbs [Wall Street Journal]
• Selling the Public on Public Housing [The Atlantic Cities]
• Bike-Share May Not Take Many Cars Off the Road, But That’s OK [The Atlantic Cities]
• Play your way to work with interactive games [New Scientist]