Larry Frank 4th most cited prof in North America
SCARP's Dr. Larry Frank is listed as the 4th most cited professor of urban planning in North America, according to Tom Sanchez, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech.
SCARP's Dr. Larry Frank is listed as the 4th most cited professor of urban planning in North America, according to Tom Sanchez, Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Virginia Tech.
SCARP alumna and adjunct professor, Dr. Aftab Erfan started her new job with the UBC Office of Equity and Inclusion on March 1st. The announcement from Sara-Jane Finlay, Associate Vice-President Equity and Inclusion read:
In 2014 Leonie Sandercock received a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant to explore the use of film as a catalyst for language revitalization and economic development. In partnership with the Council of the Haida Nation and Kingulliit, the Inuit film production company that made the multiple award-winning Atanarjuat: the fast runner, Leonie spent a year working with the two Haida communities in Skidegate and Old Massett holding community story gathering workshops, script writing workshops, and a writing contest that selected three young Haida to develop a feature film script.
City Lab quoted Penny Gurstein, a UBC professor of social policy, in an article about the new housing strategy in Canada. |
Distinguished Practice Professor Larry Beasley has completed filming on a mooc based on his book with Jonathan Barrett called Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs. The massive open online course (mooc) will show in April for the first time and then be offered on demand.
For more information on Larry's book go to his website.
UBC Public Affairs interviewed Penny Gurstein on the eve of the release of the federal government's report on the consultations it conducted this fall on the National Housing Strategy.
Contact:
Lou Corpuz-Bosshart
UBC Public Affairs
Tel: 604.822.2048
Cell: 604.999.0473
Email: lou.bosshart@ubc.ca
SCARP Transportation Planning Assistant Professor, Dr. Alex Bigazzi, was interviewed by the Huffington Post about his recent research on just how healthy walking and cycling are when the faster we travel, the more polluted air we inhale. Dr. Bigazzi has discovered that there is an optimally healthy speed to travel that may be slower than you think.
Here is the Huffington Post interview.
Jonathan Frantz, SCARP alumni and adjunct professor, served as producer and cinematographer on the new film Searchers which premiered at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival. Also screened at the Vancouver Film Festival this October, the Searchers story was inspired by the John Ford western of the same name made in 1956. |
Insurgencies and Revolutions
Reflections on John Friedmann’s Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice
Edited by Haripriya Rangan, Mee Kam NG, Libby Porter, and Jacquelyn Chase
Series: RTPI Library Series
![]() Vancouver Sun Mon Oct 22 2018 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.
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