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In the world of planning
By SCARP Assistant Professor Kuni Kamizaki's report on community land trusts
"A Case for Community Land Trusts in Canada: Promising Community Practices and Public Policy Options", written as part of Balanced Supply in Housing, and may serve as a blueprint for policy makers and CLTs alike to grow and expand the CLT movement.
October 14, 2025
In the world of planning
SCARP Associate Professor Mike Hooper's piece on "Disorder as Political Instrument"
SCARP Associate Professor Mike Hooper wrote a piece in "Debating Ideas - African Arguments", presenting lessons from the African scholarship of Patrick Chabal, and particularly his book Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument".
October 14, 2025
Spotlight
SCARP PhD student Juri Kim presents research insights at IDRiM 2025
We're happy to celebrate SCARP PhD student Juri Kim recently presented at 2025's International Integrated Disaster Risk Management conference, where she received 2nd place in the Young Scientist Award for her presentation.
October 14, 2025
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CAPACity Newsletter
CAPACity (Creative And Passionate About CITIES) at UBC is a student-led initiative that aims to bring together undergraduate students interested in urban planning and its various branches.
October 14, 2025
Research and projects
SCARP faculty and students co-produce City of Vancouver disaster-preparedness report
We're proud to celebrate a recent report on disaster preparedness co-authored by SCARP Associate Professors Mike Hooper and Theo Lim, and involving a whole class of SCARP's MCRP students.
October 10, 2025
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UBC GradProspect
The newsletter for prospective students on UBC’s graduate programs, focusing on resources, processes, advice, and best practices.
October 10, 2025
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APSC EDII newsletter
A production of UBC's Faculty of Applied Science, filled with upcoming events, media recommendations, a community spotlight and more.
October 6, 2025
Research and projects
Celebrating Urban Studies students' first community-engaged capstones
This Spring, we gathered to witness the showcase of our Urban Studies students’ first-ever capstone presentations. We couldn’t be more excited for our students and for what they now bring to the bigger world.
October 3, 2025
Research and projects
New paper by Dr. Holly Caggiano et al about teaching environmental and climate justice
SCARP's Dr. Holly Caggiano published a new paper with co-authors, about teaching environmental and climate justice. With the urgency of the topic and challenges of translating the field into the classroom and beyond, this work offers a new framework.
October 3, 2025
In the world of planning
StatsCan article: nature can influence where some industries emerge and grow
"Nature: a driver of economic actiyity" describes the relationship between natural resources and subsectors such as oil and gas, mining, electricity generation, agriculture, forestry, sight-seeing transportation, and accommodation and restaurants.
October 2, 2025