Patrick Condon (born 1950 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a Canadian urban designer, planner, professor, and the author of several planning books in sustainability and public engagement.

Education and career

Condon studied architecture at the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

. He then worked as a city planner in Westfield Massachusetts, before taking a tenure track position at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

Twin Cities Twin cities are a special case of two neighboring cities or urban centres that grow into a single conurbation – or narrowly separated urban areas – over time. There are no formal criteria, but twin cities are generally comparable in statu ...

, Department of Landscape Architecture. He was granted tenure at that University in 1990. In 1992 he moved to

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

, taking a position as Chair of the UBC Landscape Architecture Program

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

. In 1996 he assumed the UBC Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments, a position he still holds. He was promoted to full professor by UBC in 2006.

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)

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