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Leading Urban Change: Accelerating housing solutions
This executive learning experience is tailored for mid- to senior-level leaders across 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 course runs from November 18-December 16. Apply by October 23.
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.
Policy briefs
School of Cities publishes occasional policy briefs, which aim to distill research findings and data, make recommendations, and draw links to policy initiatives.
Visiting Experts
Visiting experts are influential practitioners in civil society, the arts, business, media and government; members of the global urban academic community; and emerging leaders in their urban-related sectors. While at School of Cities, they engage in intellectual, cultural and artistic exchange; nurture new ideas; and support research, collaboration and knowledge creation across geographies, disciplines and communities.
Downtown Recovery
The Covid-19 pandemic renewed longterm debates about the future of downtowns in North America. Since January 2020, School of Cities Director Karen Chapple has lead a team that is researching visits over time tomdowntown areas across North America, using mobile phone data to compare recent activity to pre-pandemic levels. They are finding wide variation in the extent of recovery, and have identified the key factors influencing recovery rates for downtowns.
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Volume 4: Issue 2 | Water Gathering with Ziibii (the Credit River): Decolonizing municipal and provincial understandings of land, parks and rivers
Lanrick Bennett Jr. on TVO The Agenda | Why is it So Painful Getting Around the GTHA?
Prentiss Dantzler in CityNews | Majority of new Canadians feel they are being unfairly blamed for housing crisis: OMNI poll
Marianne Hatzopoulou in CBC News | Ultrafine particles: Tiny and unregulated, UFPs have the potential to cause major health problems
Upcoming Events see all
Knowledge Café: Copilot and the future of the city
In her presentation, Dr. Noa Yaari will explore Microsoft Copilot’s visualization of past and future cities responding to her written prompts. This exploration shows how she approaches urban history from… Read more
Diane Hoskins on ‘Design for a Radically Changing World’
Diane Hoskins, Global Co-Chair of Gensler, and Professor Richard Florida in conversation about her new book Design for a Radically Changing World.
Mitchell Cohen on “Rhythms of Change”
Daniels Corporation CEO and socially-conscious real estate developer Mitchell Cohen discusses his new book “Rhythms of Change.”
2nd Annual State of Canada’s Cities Summit
The 2nd annual State of Canada’s Cities Summit is centered around infrastructure investment for thriving communities and a prosperous future for all Canadians.
AI and the City: Understanding new applications in urban environments
The AI and the City conference provides a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and knowledge exchange on the transformative role of AI in urban contexts. This conference is sponsored by the… Read more