
July 18, 2024
SCARP has now wrapped up its Vancouver Summer Program for 2024, and we're delighted to have made these new connections from around the world!
Students participating in SCARP's VSP tend to arrive impressed to learn that we've prepared fully-realised courses with extraordinary insights. They leave having a better understanding of the world of planning, the Canadian context, and some insights on the biggest challenges we face today.
What is UBC's Vancouver Summer Program?
A four-week experience for international undergraduate students at one of the world's top universities, UBC VSP is as much about academics as it is about social and cultural experiences. We invite students from all over the world to experimentally dip their toes not just in an academic field, but a cultural context. Arriving students nurture their academic pursuits, build friendships, and expand their perspectives of the world around them. With SCARP's vision of planning being knowledge in action - planning in partnership, how could we resist?
Our VSP courses this year and their amazing instructors
UBC and Vancouver provide great examples of what Planning and UBC SCARP stand for, and so even our introductory tour was able to provide some great insights, such as the famous sustainability success story of the "green buildings" at UBC, including the one right next door to SCARP (one of the first green buildings in the world!) We also toured some of Vancouver's downtown core and shared some stories of how each location is itself a continuing story in planning and community-building. We also proudly described how SCARP students have participated in the Vancouver conversation through many final projects proposing transformations to the city.


One of this year's students said this on her experience:
Some more memories

