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Plan 211 Student Team Awarded 3rd Place at HUBBUB

PLAN 211 Student Team Awarded 3rd Place at HUBBUB

Team ‘Alley RRRATs’ from PLAN 211 was awarded with 3rd place—among 19 other student groups from UBC, SFU, BCIT, Langara, and Emily Carr—at the 13th HUBBUB event on Friday December 6th 2019.

Held biannually at Vancouver City Hall, HUBBUB is organized by CityStudio Vancouver as a showcase event featuring student-created innovative solutions derived through coursework and in collaboration with the City of Vancouver.

MCRP Admissions Applications is now open - November 1st, 2020

The Barcelona Planning Studio: Analyzing Public Life Data

Participants in PLAN 545: Barcelona Planning Studio included UBC students at SCARP, SALA, Civil Engineering and Architecture Students from the Barcelona School of Architecture

The Barcelona Planning Studio:
Analyzing Public Life Data

SCARP Student and Team Win UBC World's Challenge Challenge

Jordan Konyk, a master’s student in the School of Community and Regional Planning, and his two teammates — Narayan Gopinathan, a master’s student at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, and Denby McDonnell, a master’s student in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs — have won the UBC World’s Challenge Challenge.

SCARP Student Symposium 2019

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Plan 211 Students showcase projects at City Hall

PLAN 211 students showcase projects at Vancouver City Hall

MCRP Studio Presentations - December 4th

Barcelona Studio publishes Public Life Study

Students publish Public Life Study on Poblenou Neighbourhood, Barcelona

Public life in Barcelona is vibrant, colourful, and diverse. Yet it is also contested, and many residents perceive that public spaces are under threat from the growing tourism economy, gentrification, commercialization and commodification.

Haida film wins at VIFF

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.

BC tourism may be damaged by fires -- Jeremy Stone

B.C. tourism operators fear damage to industry after two summers of smoke and wildfire

SCARP PhD student Jeremy Stone was quoted in a Globe and Mail article about the effect of wildfires on the tourism industry. Stone, who has researched the economic resilience of businesses to disaster, said that damage to B.C.’s brand could be costly.

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Meryem Belkadi wins prestigious award, reflects on time at SCARP

Congratulations to Meryem Belkadi

Meryem Belkadi, PhD student in SCARP's Doctor of Philosophy in Planning Program, has now been awarded the uniquely prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

This award exists to attract (and keep!) "world-class doctoral students and establish Canada as a global centre of excellence in research and higher learning". It recognizes Academic Excellence, Research Potential, and Leadership in doctoral students.

The Vanier award is quite an illustrious accomplishment, and SCARP has the unusual honour of two recipients of the...