School of Cities

School of Cities has been a member of Linktree for 4 years and joined in May 2022. The social media accounts linked to from School of Cities are: • Instagram • TikTok • YouTube • LinkedIn • Bluesky • Website Besides social media accounts, uoftcities has populated their site with: • Newsletter • Reports • Maps & Data Visualization • Policy briefs • Working papers • Research Catalyst Grants 2027-28 • The Jonathan and Erin Gouveia Fellowship Presentation Tickets • Knowledge Café | Using the Census: New tools for urban researchers • Memories of Black Toronto – Bringing the city's Black history to the screen • UCG 5.0 (2027-28): Housing, nation-building, and abundance • Leading Social Justice Collective • The 2026 State of Canada's Cities Summit • Urban Data Analysis & Storytelling Professional Advancement Certificate • Multidisciplinary Urban Graduate Seminar (MUGS) • Microcredentials: Future offerings • Social geography and the mayoral vote • The State of Local Democracy in Canada • Map Your Toronto Neighbourhood • The five Torontos | Place & Politics in Toronto • Voter turnout in Ontario municipal elections • One city, uneven participation | Place & Politics in Toronto • Meet Me At Ridgeway • Dogs in small spaces | Dog Days in the City, Ep. 4 • Next Stop: Your Library Tour • Canadian Urban Leaders • Visiting Professors - School of Cities • Early Career Canadian Urban Leaders • Knowledge Café: Voices from the food frontlines • School of Cities and Urban Studies Community Exhibition • Securing the future: Reimagining public spaces, opportunities, and supports for creative arts in a post-pandemic world • Disrupting D.C.: A conversation with Dr. Katie Wells • Gregor Craigie and Mitzie Hunter on How to Solve Canada's Housing Crisis • Urban Futures: A talk with Timothy Dixon and Mark Tewdwr-Jones • It’s time to get serious about building the right housing supply in Canada. • Canadian Urban Data Centre Reaches 1000 Entries • A new commercial boundary dataset for metropolitan areas in the USA and Canada, built from open data • Nothing for us, without us | Anti-Black racism in Canadian city planning [Full Documentary] • More Housing, Less Carbon: Policy Principles to Reduce Embodied Carbon in Canada’s Housing Sector • Land Use Planning to Mitigate Climate Change in the Greater Golden Horseshoe • Urban Displacement • AZ Awards 2024 People's Choice: Parks in Action Toronto • A former esthetician, U of T grad looks forward to pursuing a new career as a lawyer • Mapping Heat Vulnerability in Toronto • AI and the City: Understanding new applications in urban environments • The smart way to run smart cities: New report explores data governance and trusted data sharing in Toronto • New course takes a multidisciplinary look at wildfire response in Yellowknife • Flood Data Equity • Assessing downtown recovery rates and determinants in North American cities after the COVID-19 pandemic • A Pilot Study on CDFIs and Real Estate Expansion Practices in Fresno, California • BMC Public Health journal • CMCH Housing Supply Challenge • How reducing air pollution could extend thousands of lives • Toronto's 10-year economic plan calls for city to tackle congestion, inequality, housing • Can We Learn from Other Cities How to Build Transit Better? • CP Planning • Knowledge Café: Housing experiences of American Indian/Alaska Native people • Do bike lanes really cause more traffic congestion? Here's what the research says • Liberated Land Trusts • Water Gathering with Ziibii (the Credit River): Decolonizing municipal and provincial understandings of land, parks and rivers - • Home Truths • What European housing models could do for Canada’s affordability problems • Living Off The (Community) Land (Trusts) • Evolving City | Tracking access to nature over time in Toronto • Homeward Bound: How to Create Deeply Affordable Housing • Can dog parks improve social networks | Dog Days In the Citym Ep. 1 • App Development Competition • How to lower housing prices with Carolyn Whitzman • Underused public land in some of Canada’s larger cities could house a million people, study shows • Gentle Density in Canadian Cities • The School of Cities Story & Image Competition • Knowledge Café: Designing cultural commons • Towards New Solidarities: Democracy as Creative Practice • Sagar Putra: Decolonizing Mumbai’s planning imagination from its coastal margins • Postdoctoral Fellowship - DSI • Opinion: Canada’s infrastructure deficit threatens economic competitiveness and quality of life • What Lessons Can Toronto Learn To Accelerate Subway Construction? • What’s the poop on dogs and cities? • Bike Share Toronto E-Bike Analysis • OP-ED: Taking another look at who's using bike lanes • From Dust to Dust: Air pollution and urban experience in the Indian Anthropocene • Urban Data Science Corps (UDSC) • Knowledge Café: The digital determinants of health in urban environments • Black Innovation in Public Health Panel • This 78-year-old retired school teacher is among the thousands of winter cyclists who brave Toronto’s coldest months • IIIT-Bengaluru hosts global conference on AI’s role in urban development | Bengaluru News - The Times of India • Pedal politics: How Toronto’s bike lanes became so divisive • Highlighting research: ‘Rail Transit & Population Density’ • Rail Transit and Population Density in 250 Cities • Could Congestion Pricing Unlock a Better Toronto? • Urban Activity Atlas | School of Cities • The Bentway • Housing, neighbourhoods, and suburbs in film | Cities in Fiction, Ep. 1 • Workshop in Urban Data Storytelling Info-Session • EDDIT - Office Hours & Applications • Halifax remains 'Canadian comeback city' for downtown activity | CBC News • Eight Ways to Enable Missing Middle Housing: New resources from the School of Cities • Google Forms: Hackathon • Knowledge Café: Living and governing popular urbanism in Tunisia • Revamping Bengaluru's garbage infrastructure and re-inscribing caste • FutureBUILDS Launch Event • Colloquia Series - Racial Segregation and Alternative Financial Services in the US • Climate Displacement & Cities • FutureBUILDS - a BIPOC Real Estate Development Incubator • Urban data visualization workshop at National Taiwan University • How To Fix Canada’s Housing Crisis • School of Cities & SHS Consulting awarded CMHC grant for Scaling Up Canada's Community Housing Sector: Bundling assets and building capacity • Homecoming Exchange + Regenerative Encounters: Immersive screening + fabulation cartography workshop • Homecoming Exchange + Regenerative Encounters: Exhibition opening & listening party • Homecoming Exchange + Regenerative Encounters exhibition • Canada in need of ambitious WWII era housing plan: expert • Unleashing the Power of Cycling • Racial Discrimination in Toronto's Rental Market? • How AI Can Keep Green Roofs Green | Urban Discoveries #2 • Changes in immigrant voting patterns in the Greater Toronto Area • sterling-to-morrow | Jane's Walk Toronto Festival • Reducing the Burden on Police Services Through Investment in Promoting Healthy Communities: Challenges and Opportunities • little-manila-tour | Jane's Walk Toronto Festival • Canada Votes 2025: Cities & Suburbs • east-chinatown-tour | Jane's Walk Toronto Festival • Greater Golden Horseshoe Transport Geography • Toronto Floor Area Ratio Map • Volume 4: Issue 3 | Canadian Urban Data Catalogue (CUDC) • Mark Carney’s bet on prefabricated homes has promise – and big risks • Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project (MUCP/IMUCP) • OP-ED: Congestion Confusion - Spacing Toronto • Carolyn Whitzman on CBC Ontario Today • Communications Officer • ANALYSIS | Will the Liberals' campaign promises help fix the housing crisis? | CBC News • Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything Book Launch • Program Coordinator (Term) • Towards a Research Agenda on Aging in Cities • Learning From What Works: Leveraging local solutions to make better places • Assembling Change: How cities and citizens are reshaping public discourse • Housing Research, Housing Data, and Housing Policy: Why the disconnect? • Keeping high-speed rail on track • Edward Keenan: Toronto is a messy city. Here’s why that might be the best thing about it • Graduate Fellows • Visible minorities in the GTA increasingly supporting Conservatives: U of T study • OP-ED: Their Third Space - Spacing Toronto • Rightward shifts amongst visible minorities in the Greater Toronto Area • Urban planning professor breaks down 3 horror films | Cities in Fiction Ep. 2 • Transit-driven resilience: Unraveling post-COVID-19 urban recovery dynamics. • Red Pills, Blue Books: Youth Political Consciousness and the Epistemic Struggle Between YouTube and the University • Arc diagram of Bloor-Danforth Subway (Line 2) trips • Mapping mode share in Toronto via weaving space • Leading Urban Change: Housing, sustainable mobility, and transit-oriented communities - School of Cities • Equitable Development in Theory and Practice: Evolution, Definitions, Frameworks, and Tools • Activity Patterns Greater Toronto Area • An Rx for connection: Multidisciplinary graduate course explores the growing field of social prescribing • Opinion: Canada’s most valuable import is talent – we need more of it • The Jonathan and Erin Gouveia Fellowship supports graduate students with a passion for urban issues • Why are Ottawa rent prices so high? - Ottawa Morning with Rebecca Zandbergen • Housing Crisis - Carolyn Whitzman on Brian Crombie • Downtown Recovery • From Parking Spaces to Living Spaces • After 18 years of work, Toronto’s Port Lands opens to the public • The Suburbanization of Immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area • Making Sense of Public Space: Qualitative Methods for Urban Designers • We See You — Monumental • When Immigrants Oppose Immigration | The Walrus • Sydney and Toronto had equivalent home prices, then Canada’s crashed. Could Australia see a similar slump? | Housing | The Guardian • Cities of Care: Shaping sustainable and equitable futures through the water-food-waste nexus - School of Cities • Knowledge Café: Designing cultural commons 2.0 • ECOH Webinar - Zoom • PLA1516 Planning and Designing for Community Power • Pathways to low-emission urban transportation systems in India: Policy trends and research directions • Job Opportunities • How Citizens’ Assemblies and Civic Innovation Are Shaping the Future of Cities - School of Cities • A “Flight to Quality”? Not So Fast. • Urban Data Analysis & Storytelling Professional Advancement Certificate - School of Cities • CityTalk | Accelerating Housing & Mobility Solutions: How must communities change for now and the future? - School of Cities • The Urban Policy Lab joins the School of Cities as an affiliated initiative - School of Cities • Toronto traffic, transit congestion likely to worsen with in-office mandates: experts • Civic Activism in Authoritarian Space: Urban Development Interventions in Kazakhstan | The Munk School • From Tracks to Trail: Planning for equitable (re)development • Scaling up affordable housing through a ‘Build Canada Homes’ proposal • The Real Estate Diviners: Six experts wrestle with the future of Toronto’s housing crisis - Toronto Life • 2 major intersection shutdowns to disrupt Toronto streetcar service this fall | CBC News • SOCIAL: Placing the private recruiter - School of Cities • Creative cities, sustainable pARTnerships: Collectively imagining future artistic livelihoods • Introducing Benjamin Owens, the 2025-26 Jonathan and Erin Gouveia Fellow - School of Cities • Who Are Streets For? • Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe • Toronto 2021 Dot Density Map • Urban Data Analytics, Visualization, and Storytelling • The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces • Scaling Up Canada’s Community Housing Sector: Bundling assets and building capacity to create the future of housing • Building Safe Communities: Infrastructure investments for gun violence prevention • Mapping tariffs - Landing Page • Cross-community Approaches to Climate Action: Transitioning to sustainable landscape practices • Connecting the Dots: Showcasing the benefits of public transportation | School of CitiesEDDIT | School of Cities • Mapping tariffs - Interactive Map • Gallery Talk: Dr. Carolyn Whitzman on Place and Identity in INTERGALACTIC PLANETARY • Trump tariffs’ risks highest in smaller centres: U of T tool • Infrastructures of platforms • Knowledge Café: Black joy and mental health research • Increasing the availability of healthy food • Visiting Experts • Multidisciplinary Approaches to Urban Homelessness • Book Launch - Alexander Reisenbichler • State of Canada’s Cities Summit : Better places for a better Canada • 2025 Arbor Award Recipients • Knowledge Café: Assessing the impacts of alternative homeownership models - School of Cities • Becoming “Canada’s Favourite Downtown”: Encouraging investments in the core • Concrete to Canvas: The transformative power of urban murals Tickets, Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM | Eventbrite • Revitalizing historic main streets through entrepreneurship • Do all Toronto's small urban spaces have a social life? • Build Homes for Everyone • Wildfires and Urban Air Quality • Investing in affordable housing to support inclusive downtowns • DSI Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships Info Session • Learning From What Works • Reframing Housing • Maps of Line 6 Finch West • Special Topics in Urban Innovation: Unlocking AI for Cities - A Workshop on AI Data, & Governance • Urban Policy Lab Case Competition • Feminist City 6.0: What makes a caring city? • Multiplied Displacements: The Climate-Housing Nexus School of Architecture • Knowledge Café: Inside the emotional politics of digital extremism - School of Cities • Volume 5: Issue 2 | Community voices on the transformation of Moss Park • Research Catalyst Grants 2026 - 2027 • Selected Topics in Urban Design: Urban Design & Public Engagement • The next generation of teaching leaders: Meet 6 exceptional U of T educators • Leading Urban Change • SOCIAL: Invisible migrants in the visible cities • Women in Art and Design: Panel Discussion & Networking Tickets • Meric Gertler joins the School of Cities • AI and the Future of Quantitative Geography & Planning Education • Canadian Municipal Barometer • Layers of Climate Risk in Canada • Toronto's Linguistic Heritage • Backyard housing in Toronto • The Financialization of Housing • Toronto Building Heights • SOCIAL: Going BUST? & I took the Metro, now what? • The Future of American Homeless Policy • Where do the snow plows go? • Knowledge Café: Rethinking Municipal Systems from Within • Knowledge Café: Could history help end the disinformation crisis? • School of Cities Community Showcase 2026 • Summer Workshop on Urban Mixed Methods across the Disciplines • Maps of Line 5 Eglinton • Mapping development changes along the Eglinton Crosstown corridor • Creating a webpage for viewing historical aerial imagery in Toronto • Podcast Launch: Unmasking Higher Education: Indian International Students in Canada • The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Screening • Book Talk - "North: The Future of Post-Climate America" • ‘Large areas in South Mumbai could be pedestrianised’: City planning academic Karen Chapple cites examples of New York, Barcelona • Arc diagram of Yonge-University Subway Line (Line 1) trips • Knowledge Café special edition: Rethinking municipal systems from within • Story and Image Competition 2026 • Gentle density neighbourhood analysis • The impacts of lumber tariffs on Canadian cities • Embodied Greenhouse Gas Symposium 2026 • Life Behind the Ride exhibition opening • View the showcase program • Knowledge Café: Navigating the underground city • Migrant belongings: "Good employers" & "educational infrastructures" • Kensington Market Commercial Change • Hip-hop as Settlement: research report launch • Asian Computations: Consciousness, liveliness, emergent subjectivities • Why housing isn’t going to get affordable any time soon • Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia • EDGE: Youth Art Show 2026 | Arts Etobicoke • Frontiers of Housing • For the Love of Raccoons Ride | Jane's Walk Toronto Festival • Navigating the Underground City: Exploring Toronto’s PATH Through Walking and Research | Jane's Walk Toronto Festival • How Does Upzoning Impact Residential Mobility Among Low-Income Households? Evidence from New York City • Hip-hop as Settlement • CO-LOCATING CHILD CARE AND HOUSING IN CANADA • City Community Research and Learning Collaborative • Researchers find 42% drop in Canadians visiting US metro areas amid Trump 2.0 • How much has Canadian travel to U.S. cities declined? • Charting mode share in Toronto via ternary charts • Learning From What Works 2026 Cohort: Call for Ideas • Mobilizing Justice Annual Symposium: The National Survey on Transport Poverty • Making the Sacred: Craft, Ritual, and Computational Imaginaries in Postcolonial HCI | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems • Urban Data Analysis with Python • Understanding Anti-Black Racism and Exploring Restorative Planning in Canada and the United States • MUCP: A unique capstone opportunity • CityTalk Canada - Canadian Urban Institute • Sheltering in Parks Report • Visiting Experts - Kate Wong • Visiting Experts - Courtney Walcott • Visiting Experts - Greg Lindsay • Visiting Experts - Nadina Galle • SofC Policy Brief #1 - Toward an open database of public land ownership • SofC Policy Brief #2 - The state of cycling infrastructure in Canada • SofC Policy Brief #3 Community media infrastructures in Canadian cities • The cost of cherry-picking: Understanding waste worker inclusion in municipal circularity initiatives • Promising Practices: Indigenous-led pathways from homelessness to healing and home across Canada • Toronto Bike Share activity during World Cup match days • Case Study - Panama Station • Case Study - Arbutus Station • Donde Vivimos: Exploring housing and health among Spanish-speaking newcomers from Latin America in Toronto • Cooksville | School of Cities • Case Study - Cooksville Station • TOD - Decarbonization | School of Cities • Research - Decarbonization Transport through Land Use and Policy Change • Research - Fiscal Impacts of Transit-Oriented Development • Northfield | School of Cities • Case Study - Northfield Station • Case Study - McKernan-Belgravia Station • Research - Embodied Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Transit-Oriented Development Scenarios • TOD - Transportation Equity | School of Cities • Research - Transportation Equity and Sustainable Mobility from Mixed-use Development • Research - Building Intensification and Neighbourhood Change in Transit-Oriented Development Zones • TOD - Displacement | School of Cities • Research - Past and Projected Transit-Induced Displacement in Canada • Climate Migration Indicators • Housing Potential Common Data Model and City Digital Twin • How Much Ridehail Travel Is Deadheading? Estimating Its Share and Evolution in Toronto • AI’s Role in San Francisco’s Economic Recovery • Good For Cities Podcast - Episode 13: Are Current Community Consultation Practices Good for Cities? • Rising Rents and Supply in Ontario's Cities • The Punitive Nature of Transit Enforcement in Canadian Cities: A synthesis for local policymakers • Good For Cities Podcast - Episode 15: Is Transit-Oriented Development Good for Cities? • Arcadia Community Soundwalk & Sound Mapping Workshop Tickets • Visitor Activity Across Soccer Matches in Toronto and Vancouver • Knowledge Café: The state of local democracy in Canada • Saying Yes to Affordable Housing • Mapping tariffs • Leading with Landscape • Saying Yes to Affordable Housing: A synthesis for local policymakers • Alpha Abebe - School of Cities • Izabele Colusso - Visiting Professors • Abigail Friendly - Visiting Professors • Jake Wegmann - Visiting Professors • The Dark and Seedy Cities of Film Noir | Cities in Fiction Ep. 3 • Join The Team – U of T Trash Team • School of Cities - Student Programs Review • Impacts of foreign buyer taxes on housing markets • Key findings from the Mobilizing Justice National Survey on Transport Poverty • Mapping tariffs: Reflecting on new Section 338 Tariffs • Discard Studies: Nuclear Colonialism and Community Activism • Voting, Explained | Events | Hart House • Voting, Explained - Hart House • Knowledge Café: Data, belonging, and the algorithmic city • City Politics in Canada: Forty years of continuity and change • Voting, Explained! - Talking Walls • ULI Toronto: Do Complete Communities Hold Their Value?