LOCAL
• Businesses, politicians start building the case for more money for transit in Lower Mainland [State of Vancouver]
• With civic election just over a year away, NPA, COPE, TEAM, Cedar gear up to take votes from Vision Vancouver [State of Vancouver]
• ‘Sacrosanct’ Agricultural Land Commission eyed for breakup [Globe and Mail]
• Charles Marohn Goes Ga-Ga in the West End [Price Tags]
• Don’t Read This … [Price Tags]
• The Same, Only Different: Australian planners compare Vancouver and Brisbane [SFU]
• Elections in Washington doom Vancouver, and the planet [Stephen Rees’s blog]
• Homeless in Vancouver: Gregor Robertson is looking pretty good right now [Georgia Straight]
• Court halts three-storey development in Fort Langley [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver edges out Los Angeles for worst traffic congestion in North America: index [Vancouver Sun]
CASCADIA
• New bike-friendly ‘micro-apartments’: 200 square feet and no car parking [Bike Portland]
• Portland streetcar bottleneck needs $3.7 million fix less than a decade after tracks laid [Oregon Live]
INTERNATIONAL
• London Blogger Claims It’d Be Cheaper for Him to Commute From Spain Than Live in His Own City [Yahoo Finance]
• Grandiose San Francisco [Price Tags]
• A Simple Math Equation Could Solve Highway Traffic Jams Forever [Fast Co.Exist]
• Where the Empty Houses Are [The Atlantic Cities]
• What Is Planning? [Planetizen]
• Maufacturing Solutions [Shelter Force]