SCARP | UBC School of Community and Regional Planning

Symposium on Challenges to Affordable and...

This symposium will address some of the challenging questions facing the provision of affordable and sustainable housing in BC: • Why does affordable housing remain such a significant challenge for our society, both in urban and rural areas? • Which groups in our society face the biggest...

Mission and Goals

Faculty Position in Transportation and...

Applications are invited from outstanding individuals for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Transportation and Infrastructure Planning, to commence July 1, 2010 or earlier. The position will be jointly held within the Department of Civil Engineering...

NYC and Vancouver Summer Internships

I had been out of school almost five years before beginning graduate school for a master’s degree in urban planning at SCARP in 2008. Earlier stints with an architecture firm, as well as work with environmental organizations led me to pursue studies in urban design. As a native Texan who has...

Fourth Ph.D. Jamboree held at SCARP

This week-long gathering of close to 40 doctoral students from all over the world was the fourth such event held over the past 8 years. This year’s topic was “New Frontiers in Planning and Research” and brought two distinguished visiting scholars to SCARP: Margaret Crawford from Harvard’s...

SCARP Affordable Housing Symposium

No matter what your profession, you’ve probably been to your share of conferences. From professional to academic, trade shows to think tanks, conferences are still the most popular way to share your research and ideas with a larger audience. In academia, paper presentations and face-to-face...

Oyster Bay Studio LARC 510

At the end of August, 2009 planning students Joanna Clark, Adam Hyslop, Paris Marshall Smith and Heather Fehr joined 15 other students from Architecture and Landscape Architecture to work with landscape architects Will Marsh and Paul de Greef and learn about site-adaptive design. An incredible...

An Internship Far From the Mainstream

On July 2, 2009, I hopped on my pedal bike to begin what was to become a very profound journey. My destination? O.U.R. Ecovillage (www.ourecovillage.org) on Vancouver Island where I was embarking on a month-long internship. I had no idea what the month had in store. But I was definitely ready to...

Welcome to SCARP

SCARP's mission is to advance the transition to sustainability through excellence in integrated policy and planning research, professional education and community service. The School of Community and Regional Planning at U.B.C. was one of the ﬁrst dedicated planning schools in Canada. With more than ﬁve decades of experience in graduate planning education and research, SCARP pioneered the integrated approach to planning for development.

SCARP has long been accredited by the Canadian Institute of Planners and the American Institute of Certiﬁed Planners. As one of the largest graduate planning programs in Canada, SCARP has the equivalent of 16 full-time faculty, over 100 Masters and PhD students enrolled, and a teaching program characterized by diversity and integration. We are also small enough that students and faculty are able to enjoy regular one-on-one contact.

SCARP is home to the Centre for Human Settlements, which conducts multidisciplinary research and capacity-building programs related to regional, urban, and community development.

In The Limelight

SCARP at ACSP Conference

SCARP had a strong presence at the annual Association of Collegiate School of...

October 5, 2009

Events

Symposium on Challenges to Affordable and Sustainable Housing

Friday, October 16, 2009 - 08:00 - 17:00

This symposium will address some of the challenging questions facing the provision of affordable...

Student Work

Willard Park Eco-Village

The students of PLAN 587B Introductory Urban Design Studio (2008), under the instruction of Dr. Maged Senbel, worked in...