SCARP Honourary Professor John Friedmann joins 15 other esteemed planning theorists in Vienna in May to launch a lecture series, dialogue and book project on the Evolution of Planning Thought.
For more information: http://info.tuwien.ac.at/planning-thought/
Registration for Tony Dorcey's Appreciation is now closed. If you would like to attend please email Tony directly at adorcey@exchange.ubc.ca
Tony Dorcey's Appreciation - Come Join Us
November 5th, 2011
17:00-19:00
Coast Coal Harbour Hotel
1180 West Hastings, Vancouver
The world’s largest cities are resorting to tough love to reduce traffic congestion and pollution, according to UBC urban planning and transportation expert Jinhua Zhao.
Please join us in congratulating Bill Rees who received an Honourary Doctorate from Laval University in March 2012 (see attached photos). This is a well deserved honour for a stellar SCARP emeritus faculty member. Well done!
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Please join us in congratulating Bill Rees and Mathis Wackernagel, a SCARP PhD graduate, for winning the prestigious Blue Planet Award for Sustainability AND the Kenneth E. Boulding Award from the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) for the development of the Ecological Footprint! See links for further details.
Please join us in congratulating Maged who has been awarded the Killam Graduate Teaching Prize for 2011-12. He will be receiving this award at Graduation Ceremonies. Well done!
Leonie Sandercock, Professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Roskilde University in Denmark on September 21, 2012. During her visit to Roskilde, Prof. Sandercock delivered the Honorary Doctorate Lecture, "Changing the Lens: film as action research and therapeutic planning practice," and showed Part 1 of the documentary, "Finding our Way," that she produced with Giovanni Attili." She was nominated for this honour by Roskilde University's Dept. of Environmental, Social, and Spatial Change.
SCARP's Larry Frank has been included in a 2014 list of highly cited researchers. The Thompson and Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list can be found at: highlycited.com .
SCARP faculty gathered on April 16, 2014 to speak on Planning the Vancouver Metropolitan Region in preparation for a department book.
Videos of their talks can be viewed on a YouTube playlist.
SCARP Director, Penny Gurstein is quoted in a recent Vancouver Province news story about a UBC survey of Metro Vancouver residents and their experience with housing. The survey shows that one in six respondents believe they have been discriminated against by landlords and many report dissatisfaction with the region’s unaffordability. Dr. Gurstein said the goal of the survey was to identify vulnerabilities in the region’s housing system and generate new policy ideas.
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