UPDATE on Urban Design Forum: 5! – Five Crucial Decades of City Building

An extraordinary lecture series from the new Urban Design Forum at UBC’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Part of the launch of the new UBC Master of Urban Design Program . A collaboration between UBC SALA Urban Design Program and the City of Surrey. 

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Greater Vancouver is simultaneously at the leading edge of the global urban tsunami, and being overturned by it. 
Our forum will reveal the processes that are upending our own city and the processes fueling the metastatic growth of cities far distant.

“It is a remarkable thing. We are witnessing the fastest change to human habitat ever seen. All over the world, countrysides are emptying while cities burst. Remarkably, as cities fill the average number of birth per woman shrinks. Thus, within the next five decades the average size of the world’s cities will double. Then they will likely stop growing, potentially forever.”

Patrick M. Condon. Chair, Urban Design Program

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First up:

Urban Design Forum: Doug Saunders

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Next up, an international forum with 15 participants:

Urban Design Forum: 5! Five Crucial Decades of City Building

With the launch of the Master of Urban Design Program, the School is also starting a mailing list dedicated to urban design. Sign up to receive updates and information by email.