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Opinion: What could go wrong with the Broadway Plan?

Daily Hive | | Media coverage

SALA Professor Partick Condon was quoted in op-eds about Vancouver’s Broadway Plan. 

Douglas Todd: Dramatic impact of Vancouver's Broadway Plan revealed by high technology

Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage

SCARP's Erick Villagomez and SALA Professor Partick Condon were quoted in op-eds about Vancouver’s Broadway Plan.

Millennial architects redefine Canadian dream of homeownership

Spacing | | Media coverage

SALA adjunct professor Cedric Yu comments on the winning designers of Urbanarium’s Decoding Density contest.

Douglas Todd: Disease spreads by overcrowding, made worse by housing unaffordability

The Province | | Media coverage

SALA professor Patrick Condon’s book Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequity and Urban Crisis was touched upon to explain how overcrowding is spreading diseases. 

5 tips for staying cool at home without air conditioning

UBC Beyond | | Media coverage

Nursing Professor Dr. Jennifer Baumbusch and SALA Associate Professor Dr. Adam Rysanek share their expert tips on how to stay cool at home without AC.

UBC Applied Science-led research receives over $2 million in funding from NFRF

UBC Research + Innovation | | Media coverage

Researchers from UBC Engineering, SALA and SCARP are leading interdisciplinary teams tackling climate change mitigation and community solutions.

Five UBC Applied Science graduates tackling equity locally and globally

| Announcement

Here are five of these graduating students and Rising Stars of 2024, whose efforts to build more inclusive places and solutions for people are improving lives around the world.

The best architecture design studios for international students

Study International | | Media coverage

UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture listed as one of the best options for international students.

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…

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UBC is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people (Musqueam; which means 'People of the River Grass') and Syilx Okanagan Nation. The land has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam and Syilx peoples, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history and traditions from one generation to the next.

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