Dr. Douglas Robb
Positions
Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Contact information
Location
Office: PF3192
For media enquiries, contact
Vita Leung
Office: +1.403.220.5323
Email: vita.leung@ucalgary.ca
Twitter: @UCalgarySAPL
Background
Educational Background
PhD Geography, University of British Columbia,
MLA Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto,
HBA Architecture, Human Geography, Fine Art History, University of Toronto,
Biography
Douglas Robb (he /him) is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the University of Calgary School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape. Doug’s research centers on the production of just and inclusive climate futures using place-based methods of drawing, writing, and designing. Dr. Robb holds a PhD in geography from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Toronto. He was previously the inaugural Ian McHarg Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design and a Research Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Dr. Robb is also the Energy Futures Academic Co-Lead for the Institutes for Transdisciplinary Scholarship.
Research
Areas of Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| PLAN600 | Landscape Ecology and Planning | Fall 2025 |
| DSGN303 | Designing with Wildfire | Fall 2025 |
| LAND600 | Landscape Architecture History and Theory | Winter 2026 |
| LAND608 | Landscape Responses to Climate Change, Energy, and Water | Winter 2026 |
Projects
Summit to Steppe is an interdisciplinary project examining water governance, settler-colonial histories, and ecological resilience in southern Alberta’s Oldman River watershed. For over a century, canals, reservoirs, and irrigation have enabled intensive resource extraction, agriculture, and urban growth in this semi-arid region, yet these same infrastructures often obscure water’s deeper ecological and cultural significance. In reframing aridity not as a deficit, but as a generative condition that can foster just and sustainable landscape futures, this project challenges dominant narratives of dryness and envisions new approaches to water stewardship.
Publications
- The Land of the Living Skies. Douglas Robb. Journal of Architectural Education. 478-489. (2024)
- Recarbonizing Landscapes: Carbon Neutrality, Settler Colonialism, and Cumulative Environmental Effects in the Saaghii Naachii/Peace River Region, Canada. Philippe Le Billon and Karen Bakker. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 1930-1947. (2024)
- Listening to Landscape. LA+ Interdisciplinary Journal of Landscape Architecture. (2024)
- Climate Conversations: Embracing Uncertainty in Landscape Architecture Education. Landscapes | Paysages. (2024)
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