Patrick Condon

Patrick Condon (born 1950 in Brockton, Massachusetts) is a Canadian politician, landscape architect, and professor.

Education Condon has a BSc and MLA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has worked as a community organizer in Brockton, Massachusetts and a landscape architect.

Academic career In 1985, he started a tenure-track position in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. a position he still holds. He was promoted to full professor by UBC in 2006 and currently teaches in the Master of Urban Design Program.

Political career In June 2018, Condon sought the nomination for Coalition of Progressive Electors in the Vancouver mayoral elections. As mayor, Condon proposed to increase taxes on homeowners and developers in Vancouver in order to raise enough funds to build enough non-market housing so that it would be half of the city's housing stock.

He authored the 2024 book Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis. While promoting the book, Condon has argued that upzoning leads to higher housing costs by inflating land costs and inviting speculative investment which real estate investors then pass on to renters by raising rents. Condon's research contradicts research by most economists who conclude that increases in housing supply lead to reductions in housing costs.

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) Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis (UBC Press, 2024)