For this second charrette project we owe a special acknowledgment to the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia for providing major project funding. This is the second time that the Real Estate Foundation has provided funding for our charrettes. The Foundation has also been a continuing source of financial support for other projects associated with this charrette initiative. They have provided major funding for the “Alternative Development Standards for Sustainable Communities” project which wrapped up last year, and the ongoing “Headwaters Project,” a demonstration project aimed at testing previously developed ideas in a prototype community for 14,000 persons. 
We also thank the City of Burnaby for offering the case study site, for providing a wealth of background material, for their financial support for the project, and for hosting the briefing session and the public presentation in Burnaby. Our special thanks to Mayor Doug Drummond who enthusiastically embraced the objectives of our project, and to Mr. Jack Belhouse, Deputy Director of Planning and Development, for committing so many resources to the project. Special mention in this regard should be made of Susan Haid, Ecosystem Planner, who provided key understanding of a host of important environmental issues, and to Kenji Ito, Assistant Director of Current Planning and Development, for helping us to fit our project inside the framework of the Brentwood Town Centre Development Plan, a project he worked for years to shepherd through the approval process. 

We are also indebted to the strong financial and moral support shown by the Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing for this project and for the other previous and current projects of the James Taylor Chair. 

Also, crucial support was provided by the members of our advisory board: Mr. Michael Geller, Ms. Penelope Gurstein, Ms. Susan Haid, Mr. Sandy Hirshen, Mr. Kenji Ito, Mr. Erik Karlsen, Mr. Hugh Kellas, Mr. Burton Leon, Mr. Patrick Mooney, Mr. Kelvin Neufeld, Mr. Terry Partington, and Mr. John Robinson. 

We also want to give a special thank you to our “technical resource” specialists who participated in the charrette: Alan Grant  of BC Hydro, Stephen Rees, Senior Transit Planner, Greater Vancouver Transit Authority, Professor Ken Hall of UBC’s Westwater Institute, and Elliot Allen of Criterion Planners/Engineers, Portland, Oregon. 

The work of Jacqueline Teed and Alison Arsenault also deserves special mention. They spent many weeks preparing for the Brentwood charrette, contacting participants, making sure the venue was appropriate and properly equipped, and performing the thousand-and-one services that made the charrette a success. Jackie Teed also spent several weeks preparing the design brief for the charrette and assembling all of the base materials that the participants depended on during the charrette itself. Her exposure to these issues certainly made her an asset to Team Three, where she participated as one of its student members. 

In the “last but not least category” are the team leaders and students who actually produced all of the drawings contained in this book. A listing of the team leaders, with short biographies, can be found in the appendix. They are living proof that you can be over forty and still stay up all night working to deadline. The pictures of all of the student participants (except for those who somehow slipped out when the shutter was snapped) and their names are featured at the beginning of each design section. Again, many thanks to these students for bringing fresh ideas to the project and for challenging the team leaders to reach for the best and most sustainable solutions possible. 
Finally, and very importantly, a word of thanks to the UBC Landscape Architecture Program, Professor Patrick Mooney, Director, and the UBC Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Dean Moura Quayle. They provide the Chair with a home and multifaceted support. Without such institutional support there could be no charrette, and we herein acknowledge that important fact. 

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