McGill University
School of Urban Planning
To give individuals the intellectual and practical skills needed to excel in the field and thereby to improve human settlements around the world To produce qualified professional urban planners for the public and the private sectors
The School is a partner in the Montreal Interuniversity Group Urbanization and Development, a consortium devoted to the study of urban problems and the formulation of policies in developing regions and which is recognized by CIDA as a Centre of Excellence. This consortium brings together McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, INRS-Urbanisation and Université de Montréal. There is collaboration with other McGill departments—Architecture, Geography, Civil Engineering, and Law.
Urban planning issues
Director: David Brown
Faculty: Madhav Badami, Lisa Bornstein, David Brown, Ahmed El-Geneidy, Raphaël Fischler, Jane Glenn, Nik Luka, Jeanne M. Wolfe
Fields of research: sustainable development, creative neighborhoods, urban quality of life, urban design, planning in developing countries, governance
Master of Urban Planning (M.U.P.), Ad-hoc Ph.D. in Urban Planning, Policy and Design
AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning
APA - American Planning Association
API - Atlantic Planners Institute
The Bakewell Project (England)
CIP - Canadian Institute of Planners
Cyburbia: the urban planning portal
German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt)
The Green Belt Movement
Green Tourism Association (Toronto)
Institut d'urbanisme (Université de Montréal)
OPPI - Ontario Professional Planners Institute
OUQ - Ordre des urbanistes du Québec (in French only)
Planetizen Planning & Development Network
Planning Amidst Diversity: The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Urban and Suburban Greater Toronto (Ph.D. Thesis)
Planning Bibliographies (University of Nottingham)
Planetizen Planning & Development Network
Planning the Post-Sprawl Era
Proceedings of a 2001 conference at the University of Southern California
Planning Resource Online (UK)
Projet PACTE Myrand
Participative planning project for a part of the Université Laval campus
Québec urbain
Québec City Planning / Urban Design Division
RMI - Rocky Mountain Institute
RTPI - Royal Town Planning Institute (UK)
San Francisco Density / Urban Form Explorer
Terrestrial Ecozones Map (Atlas of Canada)
Town and Traffic Foundation
The Urban Ecologist (newsletter)
Contact information
815 Sherbrooke Street West #Suite 400
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6
815 Sherbrooke Street West #Suite 400
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6
