LOCAL
• 751 Burrard Street [Changing Vancouver]
• Vancouver, Ottawa among top five quality-of-life cities in North America [Globe and Mail]
• Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design [Stephen Rees’s Blog]
• Road pricing necessary, contentious—and coming to Vancouver [Georgia Straight]
• More Vancouver patios to stay open later this summer [Georgia Straight]
• West End residents take Vision Vancouver to court over market housing policy [Georgia Straight]
• Delta homeowner loses privacy fight over illegally built rooms [Georgia Straight]
• Vancouver city council sends Oakridge mega development to public hearings [Georgia Straight]
• New by-law for street vendors and patios [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver City Hall live blog: the future of food trucks [Vancouver Observer]
• Even real estate consultants hate condo towers: Eco-density discussion in Grandview [Vancouver Observer]
• Vancouver restaurants allowed to extend outdoor patio hours [Vancouver Sun]
• Vancouver’s Canada Line Is a Model of Transit-Oriented Development [The Atlantic Cities]
• How Vancouver Invented Itself [Urban Land]
CASCADIA
• Traffic on the Alaskan Way Viaduct Has Collapsed [Sightline Daily]
• Tunnel tolls will likely be no more than $1.25 for cars [Crosscut]
• Portland designer/planner unveils ‘protected intersections for bicyclists’ [Bike Portland]
CANADA
• Council votes to overhaul Toronto taxi industry [Toronto Star]
INTERNATIONAL
• Small World, Big Idea [New York Times]
• For or Against Smart Cities: Where Should Planners Stand? [Planetizen]
• Expanding housing options in the Rocky Mountain West by reducing land use regulations [Community Builders]
• De Blasio Outlines Steps to Eliminate Traffic Deaths [New York Times]
• Cities in motion: why Mumbai’s new air terminal has gone off the rails [The Guardian]