LOCAL
• The Metro transit referendum and the mayors [Fraseropolis]
• Parklet to occupy two parking spaces in Vancouver’s French Quarter [Globe and Mail]
• Vancouver demolitions are ‘a whole other kind of loss’ [Globe and Mail]
• Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – 3: “New Forecasts, Same Delusion” [Price Tags]
• Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – 2: Wishful thinking on the Port Mann [Price Tags]
• Ohrn Image: Point Grey Road – 3 [Price Tags]
• Dude, Where are my Toll-Paying Cars? – Port Mann joins the watch list [Price Tags]
• Keeping an Urban Authenticity Alive: Vancouver’s Granville Island [Urban Land Magazine]
• Vancouver’s transit system needs a face [Vancouver Observer]
• “Vancouver’s transit system needs a face” [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Rent increase for low-income Chinatown seniors could set “terrifying precedent”, says Pivot lawyer [Georgia Straight]
• Is Vancouver ready for 52,000 more wealthy new immigrants? [Vancouver Sun]
• Port Mann Bridge: New Forecasts, Same Delusion [Sightline Daily]
CASCADIA
• Sidney’s downtown getting makeover [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Ski hill could increase Squamish’s population 22 per cent by 2031 [Vancouver Sun]
• The Spokane-Seattle inferiority complex [Crosscut]
• New apartments may slow rise of central-city rents in 2014, expert says [Bike Portland]
CANADA
• Graham: Cycle track deserves to get some traction [Calgary Harold]
• Dog owners prodding condo developers to accommodate pets’ needs [Globe and Mail]
INTERNATIONAL
• This Crazy Brick Structure Is Grown From Mushrooms, And Can Keep Itself Cool All Summer [Fast Co.Exist]
• Moto-taxi street style in Angola [Roads and Kingdoms]
• What Silicon Valley Would Look Like if Tech Companies Built Themselves Cities [Fast Co.Exist]
• What Cities Really Need to Attract Entrepreneurs, According to Entrepreneurs [The Atlantic Cities]