Can eco-density reduce our ecological footprint? A presentation featuring Patrick Condon
Channel: XE Live
Date: 2014-02-19

Video from Patrick Condon's presentation before the panel discussion
Part of the 2014 Extraenvironmentalist / Vancouver Degrowth Live Event Series

Recorded February 18th at the Britannia Community Centre in Vancouver, BC

One of the central pillars of planning for ecological sustainability in a metropolitan environment has become increased urban density. In Vancouver, the potential ecological benefits of higher density has become a key justification for many new condo developments. However, the unintended consequences of increased density have the potential to dramatically scale up an urban region's ecological footprint. 

---Professor Patrick Condon----

Professor Patrick Condon has over 30 years experience in sustainable urban design; first as a professional city planner and then as a teacher. He started his academic career in 1985 at the University of Minnesota, moving to the University of British Columbia in 1992, acting first as the Director of the Landscape Architecture program and later as the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments.

As Chair he pioneered multi party sustainable community design workshops, now generally known as charrettes, starting in 1995 with the seminal Sustainable Urban Landscapes Surrey Design Charrette.

Since that time he has worked to advance sustainable urban design in dozens of major charrettes, and scores of publications. He has lectured widely in both North America and abroad, and is the author of several books, most recently "Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities", Island Press, and "Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities", also from Island press

He has been instrumental in establishing the highly successful Smart Growth on the Ground charrettes with Smart Growth BC and is currently focused on the Sustainability by Design project, a vision for a sustainable region of 4 million.

He was researcher with the UBC Design Centre for Sustainability, an urban design think tank that evolved from the original efforts of the Chair and worked with dozens of BC Communities on sustainability plans.

He is now the chair of the new UBC Masters in Urban Design Program, a program he helped design and see approved.

Event Partners Include: The BC Work Less Party, The Revelry Society