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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 Urban Change: Cross-sector collaboration for urban transformation
Applications are now open for Leading Urban Change: Cross-Sector Collaboration for Urban Transformation. Attend our information session on January 21 to explore whether the program is right for you.
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.
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.
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IMUCP 2025-26 India Blog
In October 2025, professors Aditi Mehta and David Roberts travelled to Mumbai, India with 12 undergraduate students from University of Toronto and Ashoka University as part of the Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project (MUCP) course. Read the blog that the students kept of the experience.
Matti Siemiatycki in Montreal Gazette | Ottawa-Montreal first up for high-speed rail link, but money could be better spent, expert says
Dog Days in the City
This series uses a dog’s point of view to talk about what makes a good city, why cities strengthen the fabric of society, and how dogs contribute to civil society.
Want to Prevent a Doom Loop? Look at Canada
Maps and comparative local economic analysis of U.S. and Canadian cities
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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.
Knowledge Café: Could history help end the disinformation crisis?
Dr. LK Bertram discusses how World War II-era history holds the key to solving the disinformation crisis in the modern AI Age.
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