Here is a curated list of this week’s interesting information from the internet:

• Social Cities—How to Engage Citizens With Digital Media: How can we use digital media technologies and principles from online culture to design livable and lively cities?. (Engaging Cities)

• Vancouver city council rookies acknowledge learning curve: Incumbents dominate Vancouver’s new city council but two political rookies slipped into seats, namely Vision’s Tony Tang and the NPA’s George Affleck. (Vancouver Courier)

• Bike Helmet Sharing Without the Cooties: Bike sharing and mandatory helmet laws have so far seemed mutually exclusive. In the next couple of years, though, someone will have to figure out how to make the two coexist, because mandatory-helmet-wearing Vancouver and Seattle want in on the bike-share trend. (Atlantic Cities)

• Do we (still) need Vancouver? A few years ago urban guru Leon Krier asked this question: “Do we still need Vancouver?” While Leon emphatically stated “no” in answering his own question, San Diego has answered with a resounding “yes.” (New Urban Network)

• Why is Vancouver so healthy? It’s all in the design How did Vancouver become the healthiest city in Canada? It all comes down to city planning. (OpenFile Vancouver)