Patrick Condon

The convenience city ultimatum

After 13 weeks of exploring the problems and opportunities of a sustainable Vancouver by 2050, what did 17 University of British Columbia students and three teachers come up with? Were they able to find a way to make housing affordable, our streets livable, and our burden on the planet much much lighter? Did they find a hopeful way forward, against the odds, to an equitable, affordable, sustainable, and economically vibrant city?

May 11, 2012

A city that runs on itself

What happens when you ask 14 landscape architecture and three planning students to cut the energy use and consequent greenhouse gas (GHG) production in the city by at least 80 percent — by 2050? How is this to be done? We started by looking at the city of Vancouver as it is now, finding the places where energy use was high and where it was low, and trying to understand why.

March 28, 2012

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