Dawn Smith (a white settler) recently completed a practicum with Sq'ewlets First Nation in SCARP’s Indigenous Community Planning program. Her graduate research explores the possible implications of BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) on planning, particularly for housing.
Hot off the Press!
PLANNING ON THE EDGE: Vancouver and the Challenges of Reconcilliation, Social Justice, and Sustainable Development (UBC Press, 2019)
Edited by Penny Gurstein and Tom Hutton, with chapters written by SCARP faculty and students
SCARP Associate Professor, Nora Angeles has won a Vancouver Civic Merit Award. The award recognizes individuals for achievement in a particular field of endeavour in sports, science, arts, or culture within the city and the province, or in recognition of a specific service.
City Council must vote unanimously to honour someone with the Civic Merit Award. The City began awarding the Civic Merit Award in 1942.
Public life in Barcelona is vibrant, colourful, and diverse. Yet it is also contested, and many residents perceive that public spaces are under threat from the growing tourism economy, gentrification, commercialization and commodification.
Maxime Bernier tweetstorm cost Conservatives the 2019 election
Georgia Straight
Tue Aug 14 2018
By: Charlie Smith
Link to full text
A Georgia Straight article about controversial tweets from Conservative politician Maxime Bernier mentioned a book by SCARP Professor, Leonie Sandercock.
Researchers at the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP-UBC) are looking for volunteers this summer to support an innovative research project on Public Life and Public Space on the UBC Campus.
Our aim is to learn how people’s perceptions and behaviours might change when there are more people moving through and staying in a public space. We need volunteers to be actors in a public space - or just be themselves - for various times in the month of August 2018.
CBC Wed Jul 11 2018 |
Penny Gurstein, SCARP Director and Professor, was interviewed by Global 's CKNW about revenue from legalized marijuana. Penny said a portion of the revenue should go toward housing and services to address mental health and addictions: |
