Topics: SCARP
"A city full of life” — and lessons for urban planning
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Le Corbusier, the pioneering architect and city planner, called it “a city full of life … a port open to the past and future.”Cervantes’s Don Quixote said it was “unique in its location and beauty” — not to mention a “fountain of courtesy, shelter…
UBC hosts road safety symposium featuring international experts
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With the number of car crashes resulting in injury or death increasing every year, the need to make our roads safer has never been more urgent. But as traffic worsens, potentially attention-diverting technologies proliferate and substance…
Turkey 2-Part Tourney terrifies (and delights) APSC community
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As if the approach of another Vancouver winter weren’t scary enough, today UBC Applied Science hosted its second annual Turkey 2-Part Tourney — a Halloween-themed competition that struck mortal fear into the hearts of everyone in attendance.After…
SCARP PhD grad receives top planning award
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Magdalena Ugarte, a PhD graduate of UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning, has been awarded the 2019 Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for Best Dissertation in Planning by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. The…
Building more inclusive cities through data science
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Edited: June 24, 2022 In a fair society, everyone — young or old, high-income or low- — would have equal access to hospitals, schools and other essential services by public transit. Such a society may soon be within closer reach thanks to…
Mandatory water meters supported by most Metro Vancouver councillors
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Although only a few households in Metro Vancouver have a water meter, the political will for mandatory metering is strong, new survey results suggest. Jordi Honey-Rosés, associate professor in the school of community and regional…
Lyana Patrick, PhD '19, School of Community and Regional Planning
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I am Dakelh from the Stellat’en First Nation in central British Columbia, and Acadian/Scottish on my mother’s side. My research contributes to the growing academic field of Indigenous Community Planning by looking at the planning and policy…
Christine Nesbitt, MAP '19, School of Community and Regional Planning
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Christine is a three-time Olympian and two-time medal recipient, representing Canada in the sport of speed skating — competing in the Torino 2006, Vancouver 2010 and the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. She is the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Champion in…