Patrick
Condon holds the University
of British Columbia James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments.
In that capacity he has organized a series of round table multi party
planning and design processes in British Columbia and other parts of North
America. These efforts share the goal of creating more sustainable new
and retrofitted communities. The work has produced approved and workable
plans for providing thousands of new housing units and job sites in sustainable
community contexts.
He has become well known for producing alternative models for walkable and complete communities - communities that work with, not against, the natural capabilities of the site, and doing so with the people involved - the citizens and stakeholders of the area. The community design strategies that have emerged from this work have received widespread attention throughout the United States and Canada and are provoking a fundamental re-examination of how we plan our neighborhoods and, importantly, how we can most effectively and efficiently provide the urban infrastructure necessary to serve them.