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Vancouver’s Urbanism Headlines: Saturday

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LOCAL
• Southlands plan could see land returned to agricultural reserve [Globe and Mail]
• Birks Building & funeral 1974 [Michael Kluckner]
• Vancouver council has major issues remaining before election [Vancouver Sun]
• Regional mayors face challenges as election nears [Vancouver Sun]
• Court stops Vancouver Park Board from evicting dissident community centre associations [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver City Hall to study how to cope with end of home mail delivery [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver malls transformed from ‘park and spend’ stopovers to people places [Vancouver Sun]

CASCADIA
• Big box development on First Nations land along highway to Victoria expected to create 2,500 jobs [Globe and Mail]
• City’s ‘Green Loop’ could be ‘Like Sunday Parkways everyday’ [Bike Portland]
• November 2013 Sound Transit Ridership Report [Seattle Transit Blog]

INTERNATIONAL
• How San Francisco Used Poop Jokes To Save Its Sewer System [Fast Co.Exist]
• Battle of words over high-speed rail erupts on Capitol Hill [Fresno Bee]
• The Suburb Where Everybody Can Walk to School [DC Streets Blog]