SCARP Associate Professor, Nora Angeles has won a Vancouver Civic Merit Award. The award recognizes individuals for achievement in a particular field of endeavour in sports, science, arts, or culture within the city and the province, or in recognition of a specific service.
City Council must vote unanimously to honour someone with the Civic Merit Award. The City began awarding the Civic Merit Award in 1942.
Vancouver Sun
Mon Oct 22 2018
By: Leonora Angeles
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The Vancouver Sun published an op-ed about the housing crisis by SCARP Associate Professor Leonora Angeles
“We need a multi-pronged and multi-sectoral strategy to make any short- and long-term housing plan work,” Angeles wrote.
Dr. Heather Campbell, who started her five-year term as SCARP Director on September 1st, gave an interview to UBC Applied Science
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Haida feature film, Edge of the Knife, won Best Canadian film and Best BC Film at the Vancouver Film Festival this month.
The brain child of Indigenous Community Planning Program's director, Dr. Leonie Sandercock, the film is garnering attention throughout Canada and the USA.
Jon Frantz, former SCARP masters student, produced the film.
An article in The Georgia Straight talks about the film here.
Vancouver neighbourhood back on the rails
The Globe and Mail ran a story about Railtown, an area of Vancouver that appears to be undergoing a redevelopment boom. However, the efforts to make Railtown a design and tech hub are “too little, too late,” says Tom Hutton, a University of British Columbia planning professor.
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SCARP Instructor Erick Villagomez has released his new book: The Laws of Settlements.
Are there fundamental laws that govern all settlements—from the smallest village to the largest cities? The Laws of Settlements ambitiously describes the principles underlying human settlements of all sizes and across all cultures. It revives, updates and refreshes the ’54 Laws of Settlements’ outlined in Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis’ seminal book Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements, making them relevant to the problems we face in the 21st century.
SCARP Assistant Professor, Martino Tran is featured in this issue of Trek, the UBC alumni magazine, in an article about Smart Cities, by Richard Littlemore .
(Although Penny is ending her term as SCARP Director, she will continue in her role as Professor at SCARP. She will be teaching, supervising students and working with the newly formed Housing Research Collaborative.)
I am ending my 10-year term on August 31, 2018 and a new Director, Dr. Heather Campbell will be starting on Sept. 1, 2018. Heather is coming from University of Sheffield in the UK and we at SCARP are excited about having her join SCARP.
 SCARP Adjunct Professor Scott Graham, and the team he led, has received a PIBC Excellence in Planning Award for their innovative report on thriving and affordable child care.The winning submission was a comprehensive report for the City of Coquitlam, "Child Care Partnership Strategy", developed using a collaborative process that brought together partners and community members to:
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