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Leading Urban Change: Accelerating housing solutions
This executive learning experience is tailored for mid- and senior-level leaders working in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, and aims to empower participants with the essential skills and tools to drive equitable urban transformation at local, regional, and national levels.
The School of Cities Story & Image Competition
The School of Cities, along with the departments of English at the University of Toronto Mississauga and University of Toronto St. George, is hosting a short story & image competition… Read more
Call for proposals: UCG 4.0 (2025-26): Inequality, data, and democracy
We invite proposals from U of T faculty for our 4th round of UCG, with grants of up to $250, 000 and a focus on inequality, data, and democracy.
Multidisciplinary Urban Graduate Seminar (MUGS)
The School of Cities works in partnership with other faculties, schools and departments at the University of Toronto to offer a series of seminars for graduate students enrolled in Masters… 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
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Matti Siemiatycki in the Toronto Star | New York City has imposed a congestion charge on drivers entering Manhattan. Should Toronto follow suit?
School of Cities in Forbes | What Lessons Can Toronto Learn To Accelerate Subway Construction?
Karen Chapple in Globe and Mail | Canada’s infrastructure deficit threatens economic competitiveness and quality of life
Downtown Recovery Trends Canada
Charting downtown recovery trends across 10 Canadian cities
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Knowledge Café: Designing cultural commons
In this presentation Mona El Khafif will explore her current work on 3 precedent case studies of Toronto cultural commons: The Bentway, Stacked Market, and Plaza POPs. Each of these cases demonstrate notable typological precedents for rethinking urban space in its downtown areas.
Creative Communities Commons | Towards New Solidarities: Democracy as Creative Practice
Engage in thought-provoking discussions, performances, and relationship-building that challenge traditional notions of solidarity. Featuring special guest speakers and performances, including Democracy as Creative Practice editors Tom Borrup and Andrew Zitcer.
Sagar Putra: Decolonizing Mumbai’s planning imagination from its coastal margins
This talk foregrounds fisher stories to help recover worlds that relate to the movement, relations and knowledge mediated by water as opposed to land, propertied ownership and pollution.
From Dust to Dust: Air pollution and urban experience in the Indian Anthropocene
This talk will address these questions by situating them within a cultural politics of environment and development.
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