Urban River Restoration and Planning in Latin America
Urban rivers are opportunities for innovative urban planning, ecological restoration and the creation of valuable public space. Globally, there is interest in restoring urban rivers to meet environmental and public goals. We systematically search the academic and grey literatures in both English and Spanish to identify cases, trends, and examples of successful urban river restoration […]
SCARP collaborates with the City of Morelia on a river restoration plan
In April 2016, 13 UBC students from Planning, Engineering and Landscape Architecture travelled to Morelia, Mexico to work with the Institute for Municipal Planning of Morelia (IMPLAN) and Centre for Research on Environmental Geography (CIGA-UNAM)
Stormwater management and urban forests
The traditional way cities manage stormwater is by collecting it from impervious surface such as pavement and buildings and to carry it quickly into pipes to a nearby stream, or, when mixed with sewers, to a water treatment plant. This grey system poses problems mainly at two levels
Master’s Projects/Theses
Here we showcase the final projects that the students affiliated to the Water Planning Lab have made. You can find more about our graduated students in our alumni section.
PJ Bell | Master Graduate (2016)
PJ is a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning in the Ecological and Natural Resource Planning focus area. He grew up in Regina, Saskatchewan and received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of Regina. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant studying the effects of climate change […]
Jenna Cook| Master Graduate (2016)
Jenna is a graduate student in the School of Community and Regional Planning (Ecological and Natural Resources Planning stream) and in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability Watershed Management Certificate program. She is a graduate from the University of Victoria (B.A. Geography and Environmental Studies) and from Vancouver Island University (Advanced Diploma in GIS). […]
Cassandra Cummings | Master Graduate (2016)
Cassandra Cummings was a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC, in the environmental and natural resources planning stream. She completed her Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Science with a specialization in Biology, as well as her Master’s of Science in Biology, at Queen’s University. Cassandra’s biology masters thesis examined […]
Grant Diamond | Master Graduate (2016)
Grant recently completed his Master of Science at the School of Community and Regional Planning with a focus in ecological and natural resources planning and international urban studies. In 2014 he visited the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Urban Studies where he conducted comparative research in metropolitan planning and gained an understanding of Dutch […]
David Gill | Master Graduate (2016)
David is a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from the University of Calgary, where wrote his thesis on the uses and abuses of the term “Sustainability” across discourses. David also studied one year in Hong Kong and worked internationally in France and Colombia, researching both private and public […]
Jessica Jin | Master Graduate (2016)
Jessica Jin is a master’s student at the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC. Her focus area is Ecological and Natural Resources Planning. She completed her Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at Tongji University, Shanghai, and her Master of Landscape Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), where she developed a strong interest […]