Patrick Condon — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) since 1992, holding the UBC Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments since 1996.
Authored "Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities" (2007), "Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities" (2010), "Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities" (2020), and "Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis" (2024).
Sought the nomination for the Coalition of Progressive Electors in the 2018 Vancouver mayoral elections, proposing to increase taxes on homeowners and developers for non-market housing.
Holds a BSc and MLA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Biography

Patrick Condon, born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1950, is a Canadian professor, landscape architect, and author. He holds a BSc and MLA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Condon began his academic career in 1985 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where he was granted tenure in 1990. In 1992, he moved to Canada to join the University of British Columbia (UBC), becoming Chair of the UBC Landscape Architecture Program.