Larry Beasley

The Vancouver Model

School of Architecture - Cambridge
 

 Feb. 16, 2006
7:00 p.m.

University of Waterloo – School of Architecture

 

Larry Beasley is Co-director of Planning and Director of current Planning for the City of Vancouver. He is a voting Member of the Development Permit Board and exercises all Charter authorities of the Director of Planning.

Amoung his recent initiatives are new land use and transportation plans that are dramatically reshaping Vancouver's inner city. Over the past twenty-nine years of civic service, Mr. Beasley has also been the City's senior community planner and he directed the Vancouver Legacies Program in 1986, raising $3.5 million from the private sector for civic projects.

Mr. Beasley has studied architecture and has degrees in geography and political science (B.A.) and planning (M.A.) He chairs the 'National Advisory Committee on Planning, Design and Realty' of Ottawa's National Capital Commission. He regularly advises other Canadian municipalities as well as cities worldwide, including Auckland (New Zealand), Brisbane (Australia) Washington, Chicago, Seattle and San Diego (U.S.), Xi'an, Tianjin and Shanghai (China). For pleasure, he sits on the Board of the Vancouver International Film Festival.

He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia.

The United Nations recognized Mr. Beasley's work in 1996 as one of the "world's 100 best planning practices" and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada conferred on him its 2003 Medal of Excellence as Advocate for Architecture". This year he was made a "Fellow" of the Canadian Institute of Planners.

Mr. Beasley was recently appointed a Member of the Order of Canada, our country's highest honour for lifetime achievement.