LOCAL
• Office-tower developers continue to love transit and Vancouver downtown [State of Vancouver]
• Container Port Expansion [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Big Question at Cities’ Shindig: What Will Dix Do? [The Tyee]
• Will taxes be the death of small businesses in Vancouver? [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver City Hall autumn preview: more exciting than you think [Vancouver Observer]
• Downtown Eastside residents say they are unfairly targeted for jaywalking, panhandling [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver residents enamoured by Hitchcockian murders of crows which have blackened the skies for years [National Post]
• Corner stores mean solid neighbourhoods [Globe and Mail]
• Residents set to rally at Vancouver City Hall over community plans [Georgia Straight]
CASCADIA
• Driving drops, but Portland gridlock among the tops: What gives? It’s called ‘driving light’ [Oregon Live]
• Five years after financial crisis, B.C. resort town Whistler still reeling [Globe and Mail]
• A new loo for Seattle? [Crosscut]
• Victoria councillors to pitch speed reduction at municipal meeting [Victoria Times Colonist]
CANADA
• Harper government pressured to act quickly to replace deteriorating Champlain Bridge in 2011 [National Post]
• Musical Light Swings on the Streets of Montreal [This is Colossal]
• Toronto hopes to revitalize its many postwar highrises [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• The pop-up designs changing the city landscape [The Guardian]
• A Potentially Brillliant Idea to Keep Escalator Obstructers to the Right [The Atlantic Cities]
• How Supply Chain Data Can Affect Bike Lanes as Much as the Cost of Bread [The Atlantic Cities]
• Wilshire Boulevard Temple celebrates a revival [Los Angeles Times]
• How to Design a City for Women [The Atlantic Cities]
• HIGHWAYS TO BOULEVARDS BLOG: The Language of Urban Freeways [Congress for New Urbanism]