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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday

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LOCAL
• B.C. housing rally expected to continue through 2014 [Globe and Mail]
• Transit issue – Multiple articles [Input Magazine]
• Bike lane at Kits Beach won’t destroy the world [Georgia Straight]
• City of Vancouver to hold “learning sessions” for West End’s 30-year plan [Georgia Straight]
• Co-op apartments offer slice of Vancouver history [Georgia Straight]
• Vancouver city staff to monitor how casinos adhere to health report recommendations [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver task force to tackle mental health recommendations [Vancouver Sun]
• Vaughn Palmer: It’s full speed ahead for Operation Massey Bridge, Christy Clark’s pet project [Vancouver Sun]
• Nanaimo, investors must jump aboard if foot passenger ferry service to Vancouver is to float [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Restoration of Courtenay’s century-old train station underway [Victoria Times Colonist]
• PBOT makes official recommendation for SE Foster Road redesign [Bike Portland]
• East Portland left with sparse patchwork of parks [Oregon Live]

CANADA
• Edmonton’s Iveson and Calgary’s Nenshi: The media-savvy dynamic duo of city politics [Globe and Mail]

INTERNATIONAL
• This little house [Better Cities & Towns]
• Images of Pittsburgh – 2 [Price Tags]
• The Copenhagen Wheel Makes Your Bike Electric, And It’s About To Go On Sale [Fast Co.Exist]
• The Grim Math of the Working-Class Housing Crisis [The Atlantic Cities]
• Will the U.S. Ever Get High-Speed Rail Anywhere? [The Atlantic Cities]
• The Village Against the World [Places: Design Observer]
• City Hall staff kept quiet on L.A. streetcar red flags [Los Angeles Times]
• Here Comes the Neighborhood [New York Times]