On June 1 the first class to hold the degree: Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) will graduate at UBC. Twenty-five MCRP students including 4 students from the Indigenous Community Planning specialization will walk across the Chan Centre stage. The class was first admitted to the department in September 2015.
Second year Masters of Community and Regional Planning student Jordan Brown has completed research on best practices and discrepancies for residential building approvals across municipalities in Metro Vancouver. By comparing permit costs and times, Jordan helped identify recommendations, such as pre-zoning and online approval systems, for local governments to implement in order to unlock housing supply through the creation of infill housing.
Sharing extra spots could ease West End parking woes
Phys.org featured a UBC study that examines how renting out parking spots can help with Vancouver’s parking shortage in the West End.
Neal Abbott, who conducted the research for his master’s program at UBC’s school of community and regional planning, found that 46 of the area’s 600-plus residential properties have at least 3,700 vacant parking stalls altogether.
SCARP's students were part of the Canadian delegation to Habitat III, an international United Nations Conference held in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016. Their report to the federal government is attached.
SCARP's Vrushti Mawani has been selected to participate in the Water Innovation Lab in India. The lab is a 12 day program that brings together young leaders, facilitators and resource guests to travel through India looking at the realities of the country's water supplies. A full description of the program can be found on the website.
Graduate Students on the Resilient Coasts Canada team Jackie Yip, Tugce Conger, Michelle Marteleira, and Emily Gray, alongside project lead Dr. Stephanie Chang, recently hosted three webinar sessions for their online Resilient-C platform. The Webinars provided an overview of the site to 95 registered prospective users, with live demonstrations of potential uses.
SCARP students attending Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador this October have created posters for display at the conference. See all the posters below.
SCARP PhD student Jeremy Stone has been named a Public Scholar. The initiative from Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies at UBC, was created to "...encourage purposeful social contribution, innovative forms of collaborative scholarship, and broader career readiness for students."
Jeremy's area of research involves gentrification and the intersecting claims to the city. Read more about Jeremy's research.
In April 2016, 13 UBC students from Planning, Engineering and Landscape Architecture travelled to Morelia, Mexico to work with the Institute for Municipal Planning of Morelia (IMPLAN) and Centre for Research on Environmental Geo
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On June 1 the first class to hold the degree: Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) will graduate at UBC. Twenty-five MCRP students including 4 students from the Indigenous Community Planning specialization will walk across the Chan Centre stage. The class was first admitted to the department in September 2015. Since then the students have organized a successful SCARP Student Symposium on the theme of Generation(s), and collaborated with 8 partner organizations from across BC to address real life planning dilemmas and present their findings at a reception held at the City of New Westminster. Well done graduates! |
