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Learning From What Works: Leveraging local solutions to make better places
Canada is facing extraordinary uncertainty, but great local ideas are already making a difference. Are you helping solve challenges in your community? We want to hear from you! The Canadian Urban Institute and the University of Toronto’s School of Cities are launching a national call for local solutions to place-based challenges.
Climate Displacement & Cities
CIDRARC, hosted by the School of Cities, is a global network addressing climate-induced displacement and urban adaptation. It explores migration, risk management, and urban habitability through case studies from cities worldwide. The project highlights challenges cities face, including local and international displacement, which strains infrastructure and exacerbates poverty and inequality.
Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project (MUCP/IMUCP)
The Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project (MUCP) / International Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project (IMUCP) is a full-year academic course open to undergraduate students in their final year from all U of… Read more
City Research Insights
This policy brief series translates academic research into impactful solutions. The School of Cities seeks to leverage our extraordinary community of urbanists and urban-oriented researchers to create a rich, multidisciplinary community of urban faculty, researchers, and students across disciplines and perspectives.
Equitable Development Data Insight Training
About the program: The Equitable Development Data Insight Training Initiative (EDDIT) helps organizationsrefine their narratives and leverage data so that they can make the best possible case fortheir equitable development… Read more
Reports
This selection of reports are based on research and projects undertaken by School of Cities faculty, researchers, postdoctroal fellows and/or affiliated faculty, or have been funded in part or in… Read more
highlights
Lanrick Bennett Jr. for Spacing | OP-ED: Congestion Confusion
Toronto Floor Area Ratio
Visualizing Toronto’s urban density with the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) values across the city
Canada Votes 2025: Cities & Suburbs
Visualization of voting patterns in Canadian cities and suburbs comparing 2021 and 2025 federal elections
Volume 4: Issue 3 | Canadian Urban Data Catalogue (CUDC)
This City Research Insight reports on the Canadian Urban Data Catalogue, a catalogue that facilitates access to urban data. It is housed at the Urban Data Research Centre, which addresses major issues around urban data, particularly around issues of access and information.
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Urban Adaptation to Climate Change and its Rural Roots: Reflections from Indian cities
In this talk, Chandni Singh discusses her work across South Asian cities about the interconnection between urban and rural area through labour migration and how climate change impacts them both. She discusses how to build resilience and the different parameters that must be acknowledged in doing so.
Assembling Change: How cities and citizens are reshaping public discourse
Join us for a public discussion about the current state of public discourse and how communities worldwide are breaking through polorization.
2025 Summer Workshop on Urban Mixed Methods across the Disciplines
Applications for the 2025 session are closed. Applicants will be notified by May 2025. From July 22-24, 2025, the School of Cities will host its third annual workshop on urban… Read more
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