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Learning From What Works: Leveraging local solutions to make better places
Learning From What Works highlights 89 community-driven solutions to housing, mental health, climate, small business, and more. Led by the School of Cities and the Canadian Urban Institute, the initiative shows how local innovations across Canada can be scaled to strengthen communities and create better, more inclusive places.
Leading Social Justice Collective
Applications are open until December 12 for the Leading Social Justice Collective, a professional development program co-hosted by United Way Greater Toronto that equips individuals in the GTA who are tackling a social impact, ESG, or CSR challenge within their organization or community with problem solving, networking, and leadership skills
Volume 5: Issue 2 | Community voices on the transformation of Moss Park
This City Research Insight reports on the Moss Park Coalition survey conducted by the Moss Park Coalition with support from the Housing Justice Lab in 2024.
Scaling Up Canada’s Community Housing Sector: Bundling assets and building capacity to create the future of housing
The ‘Bundling Assets’ Lab, led by the School of Cities with SHS Inc. and funded by CMHC’s Solutions Labs, explores how combining the assets of multiple community housing providers can improve financing access and boost development and management capacity.
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.
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
Urban Data Analysis & Storytelling Professional Advancement Certificate
The Urban Data Analysis & Storytelling Certificate helps professionals transform complex urban data into insights that shape policy, planning, and community outcomes. Earn stackable microcredentials online and gain hands-on skills to drive evidence-based, impactful decisions in cities today. Register by October 20 for the first course.
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Reframing Housing
Reframing Housing is a series that clarifies some of today’s most persistent housing misconceptions. Drawing on insights from leading academics, policymakers, and practitioners, the videos explore why public housing fell out of favour, why zoning reform alone can’t fix our supply challenges, and how housing became financialized.
Maps of Line 6 Finch West
Maps and data of surrounding land-use and population change along Line 6 Finch West
Maps of Line 6 Finch West
Maps and data of surrounding land-use and population change along Line 6 Finch West
Government’s role in housing around the world
Interactive map for showing how national governments address housing supply, regulation, and support
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Knowledge Café: Assessing the impacts of alternative homeownership models
This talk explores North American homeownership and offers findings on its impacts on household wealth, spatial access, and well-being
Feminist City 6.0: What makes a caring city?
Join the School of Cities and the Institute for Gender and the Economy (GATE) for the 6th annual Feminist City, this year looking at how cities can be redesigned to foster caring, inclusive communities where everyone can thrive.
Knowledge Café: Inside the emotional politics of digital extremism
This talk explores how Islamophobia, conspiracy thinking, and platform design come together to fuel transnational affective publics — communities bound by shared feelings rather than shared facts
Cities of Care: Shaping sustainable and equitable futures through the water-food-waste nexus
Explore how water, food, and waste systems intersect to shape healthier, more equitable cities. Join global experts in Chennai, India, on January 30–31, 2026 to share research, spark dialogue, and inspire action toward sustainable urban futures.
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