Noteworthy News: December 3rd-9th

Here is this week’s collection of interesting items from the internet:

• Announcing the 2012 TED Prize Winner – The City 2.0:  For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends. (TED Prize)

• Living Small in Laneway Houses: They’re tiny and adorable, but do Vancouver’s laneway houses make economic sense?
(BC Business)

• Social Cities: How to Engage Citizens With Digital Media: The increasing growth and complexity of cities raises the question how we can use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design livable and lively cities (Engaging Cities)

• Resiliency: It’s who ya know. Did the leisurely lure of the suburbs kill our sense of community? (New Urban Network)

• Vision Vancouver sets its sights on the city’s housing crisis: Mayor Gregor Robertson has taken a political risk by promising in his second term to address Vancouver’s affordability crunch. (The Georgia Straight)