Strategic Priority Areas: Thriving Cities + Communities
Insights from a civil engineer: Assessing the Sea to Sky Highway’s design
Squamish Chief | | Media coverage
UBC Okanagan School of Engineering professor Dr. Suliman Gargoum discussed the design of the Sea to Sky Highway that links Lions Bay and Whistler.
Would you pay $800 a month to live in a closet? In Vancouver, that may be all you can afford
CBC | | Media coverage
SCARP professor emeritus Dr. Penny Gurstein, co-director of UBC’s housing research collaborative, said that B.C. needs “all hands on deck” to deal with the housing crisis.
Chinatown groups back controversial Keefer Street development plan
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
School of Community and Regional Planning's PhD candidate Louisa-May Khoo commented on the plan to redevelop a site on Chinatown’s Keefer Street.
Canadian architects bring campaign to address housing crisis from the street to world stage
CBC | | Media coverage
SALA faculty and students are representing Canada at the Venice Biennale, with an installation on Canada's housing crisis.
SALA co-leads exhibit highlighting Canada's housing crisis at Venice Biennale
| Announcement
UBC Applied Science faculty and students are bringing 10 housing demands to the world stage.
Vancouver's housing crisis goes global at major architectural festival
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
Architecture professor Matthew Soules said that homes are built as financial assets rather than spaces for living in Canada.
Is Vancouver a destination for visitors, rather than a community for residents?
City News | | Media coverage
School of community and regional planning professor emeritus Dr. Penny Gurstein discussed the decreasing sense of community in Vancouver.
UBC among winners of 2023 Design and Build Challenge
Mechanical Business | | Media coverage
UBC engineering and architecture student team Third Quadrant Design was among the winners of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2023 Build Challenge.
Patrick Condon: Behold Vancouver, where there are housing solutions to be found
Business in Vancouver | | Media coverage
SALA professor Patrick Condon argued that Vancouver should build more non-market housing projects to address the affordable housing problem.
UBCO researchers aim to energize fruit waste
| Announcement
UBCO engineers are squeezing energy from discarded fruit using microbial fuel cells.