As Executive Director of the Urban Development Institute (UDI), I must admit that I read with slight bemusement a recent opinion piece by Elizabeth James in the
An ever growing population in British Columbia’s urban centres, combined with ageing building stock in many areas, has necessitated a need to reconsider provisions of the
In a two-part series, on November 24th and 29th, the Urban Development Institute, in combination with the Sauder School of Business at UBC, held the inaugural Design Advantage
It is not commonly known to homebuyers that along with the cost of land, construction costs, and government fees, that there is another large expense built into the purchase price of a home.
In the fall of 2010, seventeen students from both the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA)
Comparing local housing markets in Canada, “Vancouver really stands alone in its extreme unaffordability across all housing types” (Royal Bank of Canada, August 2011). As any aspirin
The urban development industry in British Columbia generates $30 billion in economic activity annually and is responsible for the creation of over 250,000 jobs – approximately 150,000 more than the
