Sustainability by Design 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 if they became more, rather yhan less, sustainable.

work
with citizens and stakeholders to draw up a vision of what a sustainable region would look like-- at the regional scale, at the district scale, and at the scale of individual neighbourhoods
build
citizen and stakeholder support for local and regional sustainability
demonstrate
the opportunities and benefits for smarter and more sustainable community design
exchange
and communicate our efforts and results with other regions, as well as with policy makers, students, and professionals throughout the world