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Program in Planning

Organization Type:

Academic

Founding institution/faculty/department:

Department of Geography (Urban, Economics, and Social), University of Toronto

Year initiated:

1967 (became associated with the Department of Geography in 1981)

Objectives/focus/mandate/mission:

We are a community of scholars, practitioners and activists engaged in studying the dynamics of city-regions and committed to fostering places that are sustainable, accessible, beautiful and just.

As a Planning Program, we aim to:

--Emphasize issues of social justice and environmental sustainability across all specializations of planning.

--Bridge the imagined gap between theory and practice.

--Advocate an interdisciplinary, critical and engaged approach to planning

--Attract a varied, representative, experienced, creative and critical student body every year.

Affiliates/partners/other disciplines:

Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Planning; Departments of Sociology, Economics, Engineering, Management, Political Science, History, Social Work, Adult Literature, Counselling Psychology and Community Development; Centre for Environment, Centre for Urban and Community Studies; Munk Centre for International Studies

Language:

English

Areas of specialization:

Planning theory and history; urban studies; economics; urban design; architecture; environmental studies; urban geography; social planning

Other activities:

Seminars, colloquia

Researchers and their fields of research:

Department Chair: Virginia W. Maclaren
Planning Director: Katharine Rankin

Faculty with a housing focus: Larry S. Bourne, Jason Hackworth, L.D. Danny Harvey, Paul M. Hess, John Miron, Philippa Campsie, David Hulchanski, Alan Walks, Deb Cowen

Fields of research: urban growth, urban forms, gentrification, urban policy in social housing, low energy buildings, suburban planning, neighborhood environments, Canadian cities in transition, homelessness, immigration, ethnic enclaves, sustainable cities.

Programs offered:

M.Sc. Pl. Master of Science in Planning (M.Sc.Pl.), Master of Urban Design Studies (M.U.D.S.), Ph.D in Planning

Web links on the site:

City of Toronto; Planners Network; Community Social Planning Council of Toronto; Planning Action; Metro Action for Social Justice; Toronto Social Forum; Planetizen: Planning and Development News, Jobs and Events; INURA: International Network for Urban Research Association; Cyburbia; Canadian Institute of Planners; Ontario Professional Planners Institute; Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Contact information

Street address:

Program in Planning, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
100 St. George Street #Room 5045
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3

Mailing address:

Program in Planning, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
100 St. George Street #Room 5045
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3

Main phone number:

(416) 978-3377

Main fax number:

(416) 946-3886

E-mail addresses:

planning@geog.utoronto.ca

Web site:

http://www.geog.utoronto.ca/programs/planning/planningmain.htm