## [SCARP 75](/scarp-75) This page will grow throughout the year, as events, stories, and more develop! Check in later for what's new. ## Coming up: SCARP 75th-Anniversary Jubilee ### October 15, 2026 SCARP welcomes our community from far and wide to gather with us at the Museum of Vancouver on the evening of October 15, 2026, to celebrate our milestone, reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re going, and to connect with the many insightful minds, valued partners, and valued friends that make up this community. This will be a reunion and networking chance with your SCARP peers, but also a celebration of our past, present, and future. [Learn more and RSVP](/events/2026/save-date-scarp-75th-anniversary-jubilee "Save the Date: SCARP 75th-Anniversary Jubilee") We’re proud to celebrate that UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning is turning 75 years old in the 2026/27 academic year. Leading up to this amazing point in our School's story, we're preparing both reflections on where we've been (and all that's meant for us and the world) and opportunities to inspire and gather in community today. This webpage is a living hub we encourage you to return to, as we not only collect stories from our history but create events we’ve been anticipating for years. Select from these below options for what to see first: - Coming up - SCARP's legacy - SCARP’s beginnings - SCARP today ##### Coming up ##### Tell your SCARP '75 story As we reflect on the impact and evolution of the school, we want to hear from you. We are conducting a study, to: - Discover more about how SCARP has evolved - Reflect on the impact of our instruction - Learn how we can still grow - Gather your stories about the impact you have had in putting your knowledge into action in and beyond the Lower Mainland ###### About the actual study (click to expand) ##### How Does Planning Education Impact the Evolution of Planning Praxis? Principle Investigators: - Dr. Heather Campbell, Professor and Director, UBC SCARP - Dr. James Connolly, Associate Professor, UBC SCARP Co-Investigators: - Dr. Keisha Maloney, Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC SCARP - Wes Regan, PhD Candidate, UBC SCARP By examining SCARP’s history, there’s no end to what we can learn together about the evolution of Planning education. Interested? 1. Fill out [this survey](https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5zG3hqNcahjT9rg) to answer some quick questions 2. Let us know if you’re also willing to be interviewed [Tell your SCARP '75 story now!](https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5zG3hqNcahjT9rg) In 2026, we will gather to celebrate our history, people, and impacts on the field and the world. *Watch out for details about this event, and other potential celebrations we’re planning for this year.* ##### SCARP's legacy ## Reflecting on SCARP's legacy One of our chief values is “Curiosity, excellence, and courage – in what we do”. To this end, we resolve our history and our future is an aspirational story of learning and partnership in the way we generate and share knowledge, to cultivate an openness to different perspectives, dialogue about those differences, and a willingness to learn. As SCARP Director Heather Campbell says, ![Woman in blue cardigan with gold spiral broach, arms folded, smiling slightly](/sites/default/files/inline-images/heather-campbell-arms-folded-square.jpg) “It is the way of Planners that we believe a better future can always be created. We are concerned with action and change, and the partnerships that make change work for all populations.” This year, we’re excited to: - Highlight the ways in which planning and how it is taught has evolved - Reflect on how planning education might be refined to best equip graduates to meet emergent demands today - Showcase the impact SCARP’s graduates have had on the development of local communities ##### SCARP’s beginnings UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning has a rich history as one of the first dedicated planning schools in Canada, now one of Canada’s longest standing planning schools. As Tommy Jellinek, one of SCARP’s first students, explains, founding Director Peter Oberlander held its students to a high standard to prepare them for the world’s busy era of hyper-urbanisation. ![Black-and-white photograph of man in a stetson and hankerchief](/sites/default/files/inline-images/clive-l-justice-2.jpeg) ### Clive L. Justice, class of 1953 - One of BC's First registered landscape architects, Past President of BC Society of Landscape Architects - Principle and Co-Founder, Justice, Webb and Vincent Landscape Architects ![Black-and-white photograph of man in suit and tie](/sites/default/files/inline-images/earl-a-levin.jpeg) ### Earl A. Levin, class of 1953 - Worked as part of the core team that established Vancouver’s first Planning department; - Planning Director of Winnipeg, 1960s/70s; - President of Town Planning Institute of Canada; - Chair of Planning Department, U. of Manitoba; - Taught at SCARP ![Old photograph of graduate in black suit and cyan tie](/sites/default/files/inline-images/tommy-square_0.jpg) ### Tommy Jellinek, class of 1963 - Planning Director of Fredericton - Fredericton City Council [Read our story on Tommy](/news/2025/one-of-scarps-first-alumni-where-weve-been "One of SCARP’s first alumni on where we’ve been") More stories of our history to come! ##### SCARP today Today, SCARP has graduated about 3,000 practicing planners into the field and counting. Since our beginnings 75 years ago, major cultural, technological, economic, and social changes have taken place locally and globally. In response, SCARP alumni have contributed to the practice of linking knowledge and action (Friedman 1987) in a changing world, and across a broad array of practice arenas, including sustainability, social equity, and decolonization. A community of grads, planners, and partners are now networked worldwide addressing some of today’s greatest challenges. ##### SCARP's vision today: > Knowledge in Action – Planning in Partnership SCARP’s mission statement commits us, through education and research, to generating and transforming knowledge into action by planning in partnership to improve lives and communities and the quality of built and natural environments. The culture and work of the School are shaped and guided by our values: Image ![Picture of student presenting project to man in suit, captioned, "Integrity, care, and respect in how we behave"](/sites/default/files/styles/original_image/public/2025-10/value-tile-01.png.webp?itok=UzIqQXRJ) Image ![Picture of student presenting at lectern in front of Musqueam art, captioned, "Curiosity, excellence, and courage in what we do"](/sites/default/files/styles/original_image/public/2025-10/value-tile-02.png.webp?itok=oi6JDdAY) Image ![Picture of several diverse people of all ages arm in arm, captioned, "Inclusion, reciprocity, and responsibility in how we do it"](/sites/default/files/styles/original_image/public/2025-10/value-tile-03.png.webp?itok=uJgHLdDq) [Read SCARP’s full Strategic Plan ](/sites/default/files/2024-01/SCARP%20Strategic%20Plan.pdf) Pursuant to our Vision, our events and our stories invite global planners, the broader global public, and industry partners alike to share knowledge and perspectives, and make of that knowledge sharing a community. ### Faculty new and old, and their good works This decade has seen an extraordinary influx of new faculty positions, each of them enriching the School with new ideas and new initiatives. Together, SCARP's faculty not only teach a new generation of Planners,but engage the larger community and the Planning profession with new research insights. ### A highlight of recent faculty work ![A neighbourhood breakdown of Vancouver by a factor labelled "concern"](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_focal_point_325/public/2025-11/disaster-concern-3-resized.jpg.webp?h=4057d497&itok=l2rl5P8W)## [ SCARP faculty and students co-produce City of Vancouver disaster-preparedness report ](https://scarp.ubc.ca/news/2025/scarp-faculty-and-students-co-produce-city-of-vancouver-disaster-preparedness-report) SCARP Associate Professors Mike Hooper and Theo Lim, involving an entire class of SCARP's MCRP students, produced this in collaboration with researchers from UBC's Disaster Resilience Research Network and the City of Vancouver Emergency Management Agency. ![Person in blue top with necklace, in front of brick wall](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_focal_point_325/public/2025-11/andi-landscape.jpg.webp?h=8d16384a&itok=SU3mms_8)## [ SCARP's Dr. Andi Binet and students publish paper on the future of BC childcare planning ](https://scarp.ubc.ca/news/2025/scarps-dr-andi-binet-and-students-publish-paper-future-of-bc-childcare-planning) Binet teamed up with several SCARP students to evaluate child care plans produced by BC municipalities, in their new paper, "Planning for Universal Child Care: An Evaluation of BC Municipal Child Care Plans" ![Woman in floral dress, presenting](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_focal_point_325/public/2025-11/harten-speak-series-2.JPG.webp?h=7c1a6ae3&itok=Kj_gDFG4)## [ SCARP's Dr. Julia Harten publishes new deep-dive article into housing needs reporting in BC ](https://scarp.ubc.ca/news/2025/dr-julia-hartens-new-deep-dive-article-housing-needs-reporting-in-bc) "Lessons from the first round of mandatory housing needs reporting in British Columbia, Canada" [Learn more about SCARP faculty and their works ](/faculty "Faculty") [Learn more about SCARP's internal-oriented research](/research/scarp-international-research "SCARP International Research")