Douglas Paterson

Doug Paterson is Associate Professor Emeritus and a former three-term director of the Landscape Architecture Program at UBC, joining the Program at its inception in 1980. He is a past-president and Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects, a past-chair of the CSLA College of Fellows, and a Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture North America. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of Landscape Architecture Magazine, the Journal of Landscape and Urban Planning, and Landscapes-Paysages. Locally, he has served as a member of the Vancouver Urban Design Panel and as a member and two-term chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission. His research has focused on Place Theory, on the importance of particular solutions to particular communities, histories and ecologies. He has guest lectured in such places as China, India, Thailand and Columbia as well as throughout North America. He now enjoys being a small-time farmer on Salt Spring Island.