UBC turns land into a river of gold

On a wide red-brick sidewalk that wends through UBC’s Wesbrook Village, kids on bicycles bomb past Robert Lee, the 85-year-old visionary whose plan to turn a commuter campus into a bustling network of family neighbourhoods has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
Lee, who recently had a knee replacement, doesn’t wobble as the kids whiz past him. He’s determined to find a small, artificial lake nestled among the sculpted gardens, playgrounds and burbling water features of the de