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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

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LOCAL
• B.C. Liberals plan to dismantle land agency, NDP charges [Globe and Mail]
• Rejected by ALC, rural B.C. rodeo facilities built anyway with MLA’s support [Globe and Mail]
• It’s time to freeze exclusions to B.C.’s Agricultural Land Reserve [Vancouver Sun]
• The End of the Region as we know it: What Comes Next? [Price Tags]
• How Vancouver could be Forded over [Price Tags]
• Community plan aims to revitalize West End [Georgia Straight]
• Neighbourhood activist Jak King hammers Vision Vancouver secrecy [Georgia Straight]

CASCADIA
• Oak Bay OKs plan to kill 25 deer; animals regarded as a nuisance [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Nanaimo’s supportive housing supply grows, yet demand for emergency shelter remains [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Bill would make bike-sharing benefits tax-deductible (updated) [Bike Portland]
• Portland’s homeless: Roundtable discussion on the future of shelters highlights affordable housing and shelter shortfalls [Oregon Live]

INTERNATIONAL
• Barangaroo and Darling Harbour are civic failures [The Guardian]
• Lego-Like Bike Lanes That Snap Into Place Could Create Instant Biking Cities [Fast Co.Exist]
• Turning A Vacant Cleveland House Into A Fancy Farm [Fast Co.Exist]
• How Glasgow Saved Its Coneheaded Duke of Wellington Statue [The Atlantic Cities]
• Madrid’s Streets Are Covered in Garbage [The Atlantic Cities]
• Lina Bo Bardi and the Architecture of Everyday Culture [Places from Design Observer]