Can Eco-Density Reduce Our Ecological Footprint?

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.

Please join us for a panel discussion on this interesting and nuanced debate. Are Downtown Vancouver and Manhattan the template for a sustainable future? Or are higher towers doing little more than letting us live closer to an atmosphere filled with increasing amounts of CO2?

We have two incredible presenters on the panel.
Professor Patrick Condon
Richard Wozny

Organized by -
Vancouver De-growth
The Revelry Society
The Extraenvironmentalist
The Work Less Party

---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.

---Richard Wozny---

Richard Wozny Richard has conducted over 700 development and financial studies of large scale shopping centres, commercial districts, residential towers and sub-divisions, and major industrial parks. Since 1984 Richard has helped define new employment demand in terms of real estate development supply.

He works for many of the largest developers, retailers and landowners in western Canada including many crown corporations, utilities and all levels of government. Richard's current and past work includes: Principal, Site Economics Ltd.,Vice President and Manager Advisory Services, Cushman & Wakefield Ltd.,Manager Retail Development Western Canada, Marathon Realty Company Ltd.,and Senior Consultant Shopping Centre Development, Thomas Consultants Inc.Richard is from Vancouver and completed a Masters Degree in Regional Science at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, and a Masters Degree in Religion at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

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