Strategic Priority Areas: Thriving Cities + Communities
New Westminster installs 24-hour toilet in the downtown neighbourhood
New Westminster Record | | Media coverage
School of Community and Regional Planning is collaborating with the city of New Westminster on the development of a public washroom strategy that will guide planning for additional public washrooms city-wide.
How green waste from Surrey's biofuel facility ended up on farmland near Cultus Lake
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
Chemical and biological engineering professor Dr. Johan Foster noted that in an ideal world, composting would be a simple process, but plastic and other materials sometimes find their way into green waste.
Yes, to seniors' housing in my backyard
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
Dan Levitt, adjunct professor of nursing, discussed the need for more senior housing options that are in established neighbourhoods because they are too often out of reach for older persons.
Older adults with cancer need coordinated and specialized health services
| Announcement
UBC Nursing assistant professor Dr. Kristen Haase discusses the challenges and discrimination that older adults with cancer face in the B.C. health care system.
Ultrasonic sensors can safeguard residential gas lines
| Announcement
A team of UBC Okanagan engineers are conducting research using ultrasonic sensors to examine buried residential gas lines.
Men likely to develop mental health issues after a breakup, according to study
The Daily News | | Media coverage
A study led by nursing professor Dr. John Oliffe found that men are at an increased risk of developing a mental illness after a breakup.
Vancouver highrise clusters not bad, but 'a bit cold'
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture professor Patrick Condon noted that local politicians have embraced the planning model based on organizing high-density projects around rapid-transit stations.
UBCO hosting concrete toboggan race at Big White
Kelowna Now | | Media coverage
This January, UBCO is hosting the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race at Big White’s Tube Town, a student-led event where universities across Canada race their hand-built concrete toboggans down steep hills.
The fundamental issue – Overshoot
Resilience | | Media coverage
William Rees, Professor Emeritus and former Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning, outlines why most of the challenges facing humanity and the biosphere have a common origin – ecological overshoot.
B.C. real estate assessments show smaller increases after last summer’s cooling market
Globe and Mail | | Media coverage
Dr. Penny Gurstein, professor emeritus from the School of Community and Regional Planning discussed how assessments have not been a real indicator of a home’s market value but have been of use to municipal governments.