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.
Among his recent initiatives are new land use and transportation plans that are dramatically reshaping Vancouver's inner city. Over the past twenty-eight years of civic service, Mr. Beasley has also been a community planner and the City's Senior Area Planner. 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 world-wide, including Auckland (New Zealand), Washington (U.S.), Chicago (U.S.), Xi'an, Tianjin and Shanghai (China). He participates in urban design awards juries around North America.
He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia. He was the founding president of British Columbia's Forum for Planning Action, and sits on the Board of the Vancouver International Film Festival.
The United Nations honoured Mr. Beasley's work in 1996 as one of the "World's 100 best planning practices" and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada recently conferred on him it's 2003 Medal of Excellence as "Advocate for Architecture".
Mr. Beasley is a Member of the Order of Canada, our country's highest honour for lifetime achievement.
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