{"id":13016,"date":"2012-08-14T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2013-02-25T20:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T04:56:13","slug":"august-14-2012-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/08\/14\/august-14-2012-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"August 14, 2012 Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOCAL<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 TransLink unveils first of many faregates at Marine Dr Station [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/british-columbia\/skytrain-gets-its-first-of-many-fare-gates\/article4479867\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/news\/TransLink+unveils+first+faregate\/7083956\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Sun<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Vancouver&#8217;s rental housing plan not affordable: Renters&#8217; Union [<a href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Blogs\/TheHook\/Housing\/2012\/08\/10\/Vancouvers-rental-housing-plan-not-affordable\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Tyee<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Robertson eyes business opportunities in wake of London Olympics [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/british-columbia\/robertson-predicts-vancouver-business-opportunities-in-wake-of-london-olympics\/article4479793\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globe &amp; Mail<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Stinkin&#8217; Summer in the East Village [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openfile.ca\/vancouver\/blog\/2012\/why-summer-stinks-east-vancouver\" target=\"_blank\">OpenFile<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>CANADA<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 Is densification working for Canadian cities? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2012\/08\/09\/a-dense-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Macleans<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Extra long buses coming to the Toronto Transit Commission [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowtoronto.com\/news\/story.cfm?content=188125\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Now<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Calgary&#8217;s Great Hail of 2012 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openfile.ca\/calgary\/blog\/2012\/great-hail-2012-photos-and-hail-humour\" target=\"_blank\">OpenFile<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Through punishing drought farmers making gains with solar power [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/story\/2012\/08\/12\/ottawa-solar-power-farmer-good-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">CBC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>INTERNATIONAL<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 China&#8217;s cities are making the same mistakes America made on the path to superpower status [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2012\/08\/13\/weapons_of_mass_urban_destruction\" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Policy<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Nobody home at suburban office parks [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/business\/roeder\/14319633-452\/nobody-home-at-suburban-office-parks.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Sun Times<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 So why don&#8217;t we change them into walkable centres? [<a href=\"http:\/\/bettercities.net\/news-opinion\/blogs\/geoff-dyer\/18765\/get-your-offices-walkable-town-center\" target=\"_blank\">Better Towns &amp; Cities<\/a>]<br \/>\n\u2022 Can all-women cities solve Saudi Arabia&#8217;s productivity problem? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/politics\/2012\/08\/can-all-women-cities-solve-saudi-arabias-productivity-problem\/2939\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atalantic Cities<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOCAL \u2022 TransLink unveils first of many faregates at Marine Dr Station [Globe &amp; Mail]\u00a0[Vancouver Sun] \u2022 Vancouver&#8217;s rental housing plan not affordable: Renters&#8217; Union [The Tyee] \u2022 Robertson eyes business opportunities in wake of London Olympics [Globe &amp; Mail] \u2022 Stinkin&#8217; Summer in the East Village [OpenFile] CANADA \u2022 Is densification working for Canadian<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/08\/14\/august-14-2012-headlines\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;August 14, 2012 Headlines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[1116,774,792,1095,8089,461,858,9641,9642,9640,1059,8182,214,1899],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-america","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-cbc","tag-chicago-sun-times","tag-china","tag-location","tag-london-olympics","tag-marine-dr-station","tag-renters-union","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-toronto-transit-commission","tag-vancouver-2","tag-vancouver-sun"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>August 14, 2012 Headlines - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/08\/14\/august-14-2012-headlines\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"August 14, 2012 Headlines - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LOCAL \u2022 TransLink unveils first of many faregates at Marine Dr Station [Globe &amp; 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