UBC: Sustainability by Design Project now online
Published April 6th, 2006 in Sustainable Design 
Over the next several years, Sustainability by Design will create and coordinate a series of design briefs, research tools, stakeholder design charrettes, educational events, community workshops, exhibitions and publications. Municipal officials, researchers, citizens and local stakeholders will explore consensus-based concepts for how a sustainable region might evolve. These community processes, research initiatives and policy tools will provide a unique opportunity to test key sustainability principles and targets against real site constraints and emerging market conditions, and to see what kind of communities and neighbourhoods might result in BC's Lower Mainland over the next several decades.
Website: www.landfood.ubc.ca/sxd/
A project of the UBC Design Centre for Sustainability, the SxD initiative is multi-year collaborative effort to produce a visual representation of what Greater Vancouver region might look like in 2050, at neighbourhood, district and region-wide scales. Of particular interest is the project's test run with the UBC Urban Design Studio.
View the results and maps at: www.landfood.ubc.ca/sxd/7_studio.htm