Lauren Brown | SCARP | UBC School of Community and Regional Planning

Lauren

Brown

Email: Lauren.brown@ubc.ca

Bio and CV

Biography

I was born and raised in the U.S. and have been a visitor on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory since 2017. My previous work focused on environmental and food justice and I am grateful to have worked on participatory projects in Utah, New York, and Guatemala. I also completed a Fulbright grant in Mauritius facilitating community-based mapping around climate change, and a Jane Jacobs Fellowship in Toronto designing and installing an agricultural green roof.

My current research and activism are focused on housing and homelessness policy, highlighting the complexities of emergency shelter in the global north. Emergency shelters are often framed and discussed in terms of emergency services and crisis, but must also be understood in the context of colonization, racial capitalism, and in relation to global housing issues and deepening housing unaffordability. By thinking about the current housing “crisis” as rooted in these histories of land, race, and power, my work draws out the slower, more subtle forms of violence embedded in housing and homelessness policy.

Publications

Slow Violence and Homelessness: Activating public space and amplifying displacement. LoSquaderno, Volume 59. With Jeff Rose. Available here: http://www.losquaderno.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/losquaderno59.pdf

The Highs and Lows of SROs. February, 2021. Carnegie Community Action Project Housing and Hotel Report. Fiona York with contributions from King-Mong Chan. Don Walchuk, Gunargie O’Sullivan, Gary Olver, Lauren Brown.

Displaced: Rents and the rate of change in the Downtown Eastside. June 2019. Carnegie Community Action Project Housing Report. Fiona York, King-Mong Chan, Lama Mugabo, Elli Taylor, with Don Walchuk, Sean Cao, Lauren Brown, Wendee Lang, Jorge Rodriguez.

L’Elevation du Niveau de la Mer, C’est aussi à Maurice. 2015. Kozé.

Pedestrian and Transit Oriented Design, Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, with Lauren Brown, Colin Quinn Hurst and Dan Burden. 2013. Urban Land Institute.

Mobilizing Your Community for Emergency Evacuation: Vulnerable Populations Planning Workbook, with John Renne, and Thomas Sanchez. 2012. FTA Technical Report.

Book Review for Cities and Gender, with Caitlin Cahill. 2011. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Volume 18(2), 302

Climate Change Impacts and Responses in the Southeastern United States. 2011. In Resilient Coastal City Regions: Planning for Climate Change in the United States and Australia, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA.

Prediction of Transportation Outcomes for LEED-ND Pilot Projects, with Reid Ewing and Colin Quinn-Hurst. 2011. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Scholarships and Awards

International Doctoral Fellowship 2017 - 2022

2019- 2020 H. Peter Oberlander Scholarship in Community and Regional Planning

2021 UBC Partnership Recognition Fund Sponsorship for the Camp K-T Oral Testimony Project in partnership with Watari Counseling and Support Services.

Teaching Assistantships PLAN 508 Foundations of Planning Theory and History, 2018 - 2020; PLAN 530 Affordable Housing Policy and Planning, 2021 PLAN 331 The Just City in a Divided World 2021

Supervisors

Leonie Sandercock

Maged Senbel