LOCAL
• Vancouver prepares to join the bike-share craze [Globe and Mail]
• Bike path could close Point Grey Road [Globe and Mail]
• 13 reasons why TransLink funding referendum would be wrong [Business in Vancouver]
• Metro Vancouver mayors fear there’s too little time for road pricing referendum [Vancouver Sun]
• Highrise developer says changes will quiet Mount Pleasant opposition [Vancouver Sun]
• Plans for unstaffed Second Narrows rail bridge worries port, district officials [Vancouver Sun]
• Cambie and Broadway sw 2 [Changing Vancouver]
CASCADIA
• Water Works, 3: The conservation conversation [Crosscut]
• Washington and Oregon Cities Try to Evade Political Jam to Build a Bridge [New York Times]
• Opportunities seen in demise of CRC [The Columbian]
• SDOT makes guerrilla-installed protected bike lane permanent [Seattle Bike Blog]
CANADA
• Toronto council votes in favour of Scarborough subway in major victory for Rob Ford [National Post]
• Non-residential building construction down in second quarter: Statistics Canada [Montreal Gazette]
INTERNATIONAL
• In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An ‘Invisible’ Slum On The Map [NPR]
• Why modernist design may be inherently hard to green [The Fifth Estate]
• Top Ten: China’s Ugliest Buildings [Asia Society]
• With a New Curfew, Is Downtown Greensboro Telling Young Black People to Stay Away? [The Atlantic Cities]