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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Wednesday

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LOCAL
• Billionaire’s Vancouver mural prompts graffiti gripes [Globe and Mail]
• Righting a Wrong: Removing the Seaside Paths [Price Tags]
• Bike paths: More wrongs that must be righted [Price Tags]
• Vancouver city council approves the Arts Club, Bard on the Beach as tenants for new arts centre [Georgia Straight]
• Residents eager for Southeast False Creek green space [Georgia Straight]
• Dermod Travis: Too many politicians in the municipal kitchen [Georgia Straight]
• Homeless in Vancouver: Traffic calming is frustrating drivers [Georgia Straight]
• Surrey to install crosswalk on road where teen killed by motorcycle [Vancouver Sun]
• Salmon return to spawn in East Vancouver creek for second year (with video) [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Election 2013: New Seattle, where are you? [Crosscut]
• A to-do list for Seattle’s next mayor [Crosscut]
• Columbia River Crossing: Tolling questions could scuttle bridge project [Oregon Live]
• Greater Victoria amalgamation question could be included on 2014 ballot [Victoria Times Colonist]

CANADA
• You can’t slight city hall [Globe and Mail]

INTERNATIONAL
• No Riders Killed in First 5 Months of New York City Bike-Share Program [New York Times]
• Chicago Timelapse Project – Windy City Nights [Vimeo]
• A Rural Explanation for VMT Decline? [Getting There From Here]
• Solar On A House Is Easy, Solar On A Church Or School Is Hard: This Startup Is Fixing That [Fast Co.Exist]
• The Passion of Young Cleveland [The Atlantic Cities]
• Why Your Rent Is Rising Faster Than Inflation [The Atlantic Cities]
• NYC: 7 Things at Risk, Post-Bloomberg [Future Cities]
• Twitter Helps Revive a Seedy San Francisco Neighborhood [New York Times]