Strategic Priority Areas: Thriving Cities + Communities
Land values: Step into the winding debate around stair restrictions in BC buildings
BC Business | | Media coverage
SALA Associate Professor Inge Roecker is a member of LGA Architectural Partners, which has been shortlisted for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s “Housing Supply Challenge” competition to develop solutions to the country’s supply…
Drawing from Across Disciplines to Build Better Cities
| Spotlight
I’m a recent graduate of the Bachelor of Design (BDes) program, and while I’ve been lucky to call Vancouver home for the past four years, I’m originally from Phoenix, Arizona. I left home to study abroad during high school in Changshu, China, and…
Letters to the Sun: We need the Vancouver park board
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
SCARP Professor Emeritus Dr. Michael Seelig discussed Vancouver City Counsil's rejection of a $300 million plan submitted to them by the park board.
Rising housing costs boost health of rich, worsen health of poor, finds BC study
Business in Vancouver | | Media coverage
SCARP Professor Emeritus Dr. Penny Gurstein highlights how these results line up with a longitudinal study she co-authored over a decade ago.
Balancing Outdoor Adventure And Engineering
| Spotlight
Marcus' experience in engineering and his plans for the future.
In Vancouver, unhappily, it’s all about the price of dirt
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
Douglas Todd quotes SCARP professor Patrick Condon's new book Broken City to delve into Vancouver's housing crisis.
UBC Civil Engineering's Dr. Tony Yang interviewed on structural engineering
The Peggy Smedley Show | | Media coverage
Dr. Yang shares a little bit about himself and his research to ensure infrastructure can be built faster, have higher performance, and is more environmentally friendly.
UBC Engineering professor elected to Canadian Academy of Engineering
| Announcement
Dr. Bhushan Gopaluni, a UBC professor of chemical and biological engineering, is one of 54 new Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
School of Nursing takes a role in Canada-wide pandemic response initiative
UBC School of Nursing | | Media coverage
Nursing assistant professor Dr. Rubee Dev has been named the steering committee provincial lead from BC for “Pandemic pREparedness engaging Primary cARe and Emergency Departments,” or PREPARED.
Overcrowded schools? Vancouver School Board says yes and no
The Campus Resident | | Media coverage
SCARP professor Dr. Michael Hooper comments on the Vancouver School Board's projections for future students.