School of Cities

If you're heading out for Nuit Blanche stop by STACKT Market to see Tong Lam's installation – a research-based, site-specific multimedia installation staged in CA's largest shipping container market & reflecting on a key infrastructure of the global economy that sustains everyday life.

Our recent dot density map allows the user to sort Toronto’s density by population, gender, age, income, ethnicity, immigration, commute mode, and commute times: schoolofcities.githu...

Meet Benjamin Owens, the inaugural Jonathan and Erin Gouveia Fellow. The fellowship recognizes academic merit, actionable research, and leadership. Benjamin's work explores the intersections of housing, work, and youth homelessness in urban contexts. schoolofcities.utoro...

We go back to the data used in a recent paper on climate impacts of different land-use scenarios to unpack one aspect of the findings: residents in denser, centralized, urban areas have far less impact on emissions than in suburban, exurban & rural areas. schoolofcities.utoro...

Who are streets for? More than 80% of street space in Toronto is inequitably dedicated to motor vehicles. How can this be fairly re-designed?

The distribution of public land in cities has serious implications for how we move, how safe we feel, and who can access opportunities. @lanrickbennett.bsky.social + our data viz team find that 80% of T.O. street space is dedicated to motor vehicles:

Our latest CRI looks at Sustainable pARTnerships, which unites the cultural & academic sectors to explore artists’ experience of the pandemic, imagine a future where artists have thriving livelihoods & illuminate a role for academia in supporting the arts schoolofcities.utoro...

SofC Director @profchapple.bsky.social joins a panel of “real estate diviners” who talked to Toronto Life about the city’s housing affordability crisis. She talks about bold leadership, trying it all, government alignment, the infrastructure deficit and more. torontolife.com/deep...

Oct. 8: Join us to hear from @utoronto.ca's Michelle Buckley & @manchester.ac.uk's Debolina Majumder on the ways the British approach to labour in colonial India continue to influence racialized constructions of migrant labour in India's Uttar Pradesh. schoolofcities.utoro...

The first of our two stacked microcredential programs on urban data starts on Oct 27. You may take a single one, or take both to receive a certificate in urban data storytelling & analytics. Learn more and register now – the first one is filling up fast! schoolofcities.utoro...

@cwhitzman.bsky.social co-authored this report, funded by Maytree, as the culmination of a project working with non-market developers to find a model that Build Canada Homes could employ to unlock affordability in innovative, scalable, sustainable ways schoolofcities.utoro...

The benefits of trees – shade, cooling, pollutant mitigation – are often localized. Groundwork Bridgeport (CT) worked with our data storytelling team to communicate their importance & engage orgs + the public in volunteering, financial support, tree adoption schoolofcities.githu...

Steve Farber, Interim Director of SofC’s affiliated initiative The Mobility Network, talks to CBC about the correlation between TTC investment and the economy, at a time when infrastructure upgrades are about to once again disrupt public transit in Canada’s biggest city. www.cbc.ca/news/cana...

Housing Justice Lab's @docdantzler.bsky.social is part of a team of researchers who have examined the racial and economic makeup of those who get evicted from their homes in Toronto – and those who don’t. metropolitics.org/Vi...

The Oct. talk in the SOCIAL series tackles discrepancies in the perception of migrant labour, especially in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, which has the highest numbers of migrant workers going to the Gulf. Weds, October 8 - register now: schoolofcities.utoro...

Register now for our upcoming microcredential in urban data storytelling. Join us weekly from Oct 27-Dec. 8 (online and asynchronous) and learn to find the story in the data and hone your skills in data literacy, visualization, and strategic communication. schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/learning-sof...

@utoronto.ca grad students: apply now for our Winter '26 MUGS seminar on gig work, mobility & urban space and policy, explored through food delivery platforms and the challenges they present to regulatory frameworks, labour conditions and more. Apply now: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/learning-sof...

Cover of Through the Roof featuring a home on an increasing price arrow

Unveils divergent American and German housing policies over the past century and their major impact on each country's capitalist model.

Through the Roof by Alexander Reisenbichler (@utoronto.ca), Out Now

🗺️ 🗃️ #LawSky #BookSky #PolicySky #Housing

https://cup.org/47L03JF

Are you an academic, anywhere in the world, working on issues of water, food and/or waste systems in urban settings? The deadline has been extended until Mon. Sept. 29 to submit to present yr. research at the Cities of Care conference in Chennai in Jan '26 schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/cities...

Civic Activism in Authoritarian Space: Urban Development Interventions in Kazakhstan

There's still time to register for tomorrow’s book talk w/ California State University's Sara O'Connor - a comparative study of participation in urban development politics in 3 Kazakh cities, offering new ways to think about activism & collective agency

🔗 munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/civic-...

We look forward to welcoming you at 1 p.m. ET today for the first Knowledge Café of the season, featuring Dr. El Khafif on her research into emerging models of public space in response to the growing demand for social infrastructure in TO's downtown schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/knowle...

Dormant infrastructure presents a challenge and an opportunity for cities. Albuquerque is transforming a rail corridor into a multi-use urban trail and its Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency worked w/ our EDDIT team to create a data story about the benefits schoolofcities.github.io/eddit/albuqu...

Park(ing) Day Toronto starts today, part of a global art project to temporarily convert parking spaces into tiny parks & places for art & activism. So we're revisiting this article about why turning underutilized parking into homes makes financial sense. 🔗 schoolofcities.github.io/underutilize...

This Monday (Sept 22) is the last day to submit an abstract to present your original research on water, food and/or waste systems in urban settings at the Cities of Care conference taking place in India on January 30 & 31 2026. Learn more and apply now: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/cities...

In recent research Dr. El Khafif explores 3 T.O. models of public space where emphasis is on the hybrid governance & stakeholder ecosystems that enable negotiation b/w top-down policy & bottom-up initiatives. Join us for Knowledge Café, Sept. 24, 1 p.m. ET schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/event/knowle...

In the winter term we'll offer The Geography of Food Delivery, a grad seminar about the rapid expansion of on-demand platforms (Uber Eats et al.) and the challenges they present in balancing safety, equity, sustainability considerations in urban policy schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/learning-sof...

Sept. 25, 1 p.m. ET: CERES welcomes Sara O’Connor to speak about her book on how people in urban spaces maneuver authorities to advance common interests & affect change in the policy while staying safe in settings of political repression. Register: munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/civic-...

Who are streets for? 81% of street space in Toronto is inequitably dedicated to motor vehicles. How can this be fairly re-designed?

check out our recent project mapping street space allocation in Toronto

we find that more than 80% of transportation infrastructure in Toronto is designed for cars, far more than how people actually travel

w/ @lanrickbennett.bsky.social & Mia Wang

schoolofcities.github.io/who-are-stre...

We look forward to welcoming you today (12.30 p.m. ET) for the final information session on Leading Urban Change. Bring your questions about our upcoming executive learning experience on housing, sustainable mobility, and transit-oriented communities: schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/programs-opp...

Who are streets for? 81% of street space in Toronto is inequitably dedicated to motor vehicles. How can this be fairly re-designed?

Who are streets for?

More than 80% of street space in Toronto is inequitably dedicated to motor vehicles. How can this be fairly re-designed?

via @uoftcities.bsky.social

schoolofcities.github.io/who-are-stre...

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Leading Urban Change offers professionals the frameworks for systems-level thinking across housing and mobility and insights into financing, governance, innovation, and policy. Applications close soon - bring your questions to the final info session schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/programs-opp...