Patrick Condon

Patrick Condon (born 1950 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a Canadian politician, landscape architect, and professor.

Education

Condon has a BSc and MLA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] He has worked as a community organizer in Brockton, Massachusetts and a landscape architect.[2]

Academic career

In 1985, he started a tenure-track position in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.[1] He was granted tenure at that University in 1990.

In 1992 he moved to Canada, taking a position as Chair of the UBC Landscape Architecture Program University of British Columbia.[1] In 1996 he assumed the UBC Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments,[3] a position he still holds.[4] He was promoted to full professor by UBC in 2006.

Political career

In June 2018, Condon sought the nomination for Coalition of Progressive Electors in the Vancouver mayoral elections.[5] As mayor, Condon proposed to increase taxes on homeowners and developers in Vancouver in order to raise enough funds to build enough non-market housing so that it would be half of the city's housing stock.[5] Condon said that tax hikes on developers would not lead to higher house prices.[5] He withdrew in July 2018 after suffering a stroke in Massachusetts.[6]

Books

Condon is the author of books including

  • Design Charrettes for Sustainable Communities (Island Press, 2007)
  • Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities (Island Press, 2010)
  • Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities; Design in an age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class (Island Press, 2020)

References
  1. SALA. "UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture". www.ubc.ca/.
  2. Beers, David (2020-03-11). "Three Big Waves Are Reshaping Cities. How to Ride Them to a Better Future". The Tyee. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  3. Landscape and Liveable Environments. "James Taylor Chair". www.jtc.sala.ubc.ca/.
  4. "James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments- STAFF".
  5. "In an election of safe choices, Patrick Condon wants to be Vancouver's 'Bernie'". thestar.com. 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  6. "Stroke ends Patrick Condon's Vancouver mayoral run with COPE". Vancouver Is Awesome. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
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