May 23, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Temporary hostels planned for young Olympic visitors [The Globe and Mail]

A Post-Motordom World [Price Tags]

Carbon offsets: It really isn’t easy being green [Globe and Mail]

INTERNATIONAL
A big U-turn in how we fix traffic [The Oregonian]

Bionic Energy [Mail Tribune]

A pattern language for New York streets [Emergent Urbanism]

Honk, Honk, Aaah [New York Mgazine]

‘We have taken every measure we can think of to stop the desert moving closer and submerging our crops and villages’ [Guardian]

Guest Column: Math and the City [The New York Times]

How High [Slate]