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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Thursday

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LOCAL
• Activists plan to ramp up coal-terminal battle [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver’s tilting homes are distinctive, but puzzling [Globe and Mail]
• Referendum: The Posts of 2013 [Price Tags]
• We would need many more freeways [Fraseropolis]
• Hudson’s Bay – Cordova Street [Changing Vancouver]
• City slow to act on Grandview-Woodland citizens’ assembly [Georgia Straight]
• Rental housing remarks highlight divide between Vision Vancouver and COPE [Georgia Straight]
• Carole Taylor cited as ideal Vancouver mayoral candidate [Georgia Straight]
• Full Port Mann Bridge toll might force drivers to take another route [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• How Might West Seattle Link Actually Look? [Seattle Transit Blog]
• A Solution for Our Industrial Land Shortage? [Portland Transport]
• Portland transportation predictions 2014: Bike share, TriMet taxes, distracted driving – and distracted driving kills 10 people per day in this country, – electric highway speed signs [Oregon Live]
• The 4 biggest Portland bike stories nobody wrote in 2013 [Bike Portland]

NATIONAL
• A tale of two cities’ New Year’s levees: Toronto and Mississauga [Toronto Star]
• 2013 was Toronto’s year of living disastrously: Hume [Toronto Star]

INTERNATIONAL
• New year, same Flint? Q&A with Brett Carlsen and Juan Madrid [Roads and Kingdoms]
• The Quest to Create the Perfect Map [The Atlantic Cities]
• Scientific Proof That Cars and Cities Just Don’t Mix [Planetizen]
• Mexico City subway rate increase enrages commuters [Los Angeles Times]
• L.A. County transit officials plan to put sales tax measure on ballot [Los Angeles Times]