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