Anjali Varghese | SCARP | UBC School of Community and Regional Planning

Anjali

Varghese

Before starting graduate school, I worked as a civil engineer in Edmonton, Alberta. Most recently, I was involved in project management and engineering design with Stantec’s Urban Land group. After three years in the development industry, I returned to school to explore sustainable communities and holistic approaches to design. My attraction to urban design is both aesthetic and social. I aspire to blend my technical and artistic interests while promoting social and environmental justice through the use and design of our built landscape. My research at SCARP explores visual communication as a tool to engage communities in thinking about how urban design affects their day-to-day lives. My master’s project incorporates a hand-drawn visual inventory of Edmonton neighbourhoods which I hope can be a starting point for conversations about community and design.

Courses Taken

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Urban Design, Transportation and Physical Planning:

• PLAN 548L • Theory and Methods of Urban Design • Maged Senbel

• PLAN 587A • Introduction to Physical and Land Use Planning • Maged Senbel

• PLAN 587B • Urban Design Studio • Maged Senbel

• PLAN 587D • Interdisciplinary Urban Design Studio • Larry Beasley, Joyce Drohan, Frank Ducote, Scot Hein

• LARC 510B • Advanced Graphics • Duncan Cavens, Daniel Roehr

• COMM 490A • Directed Study: NAIOP Northwest Real Estate Competition • Tsur Sommerville

• PLAN 548A • Introduction to Transportation Planning • Todd Litman

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General Planning:

• PLAN 502 • Introduction to Planning Theory and History • Leonie Sandercock

• PLAN 506 • Legal Context of Planning • Ray Young

• PLAN 511 • Quantitative Methods • Stephanie Chang

• PLAN 515 • Qualitative Methods • Chris Harker

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Planning Processes and Policy:

• PLAN 548O • Participatory Planning Methods & Tools • Peter Boothroyd

• PLAN 583 • Housing Policy • Michael Gordon

• PLAN 504 • Ecological Context of Planning • Bill Rees

• PLAN 561 • Urban Development, Market and Financial Analysis • Jay Wollenberg

• PLAN 548W • Introduction to Geographical Information Systems • Bill Gushue

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Related Work Experience

• Stantec Consulting Ltd. • Edmonton, AB • May 2005 to June 2008

• Fulcrum Engineering Ltd. • St Albert, AB • May 2004 to May 2005

• Allberta Energy Research Institute • Edmonton, AB • May 2002 to August 2002

• KC Environmental Group Ltd. • Edmonton, AB • September 2000 to December 2000

Personal Website http://www.anjalivarghese.com