Canadian Urban Institute
Canadian Urban Institute
The Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing solutions to important issues that have an impact on the quality of life in urban areas and communicating those solutions to a wide audience through a variety of media.
The CUI brings together experts from different disciplines to connect people, money and ideas to build strong communities and equitable and competitive urban areas in Canada and internationally. The CUI was established in 1990 by the City of Toronto and the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto with a mandate to:
Connect urban decision-makers at all levels of government, the corporate and community sectors to enhance policy making and management of urban areas;
Convene groups of decision-makers throughout Canada and abroad to facilitate the exchange of information between urban areas within Canada and internationally;
Communicate the results of applied research and provide training in order to foster co-operative approaches to urban issues.
urban issues, Urban planning, urban policy
Documents are accessed from several places on the home page:
1. On the left-hand menu of the home page, under the following categories and sub-categories:
- CUI Services;
- Become a Member;
- Get Involved;
- Publications - arranged in chronological order, with most recent first;
- Japan Local Gov. Ctr.;
- Corporate Members; Job Opportunities; Media Releases - all releases back to 2002;
- Urban Resources - annotated listing of other organizations, both online and not, involved in urban planning;
- Centre for the Development of Community Assets.
2. From the second menu from the top under these categories:
Events and Awards:
- Conferences - information about the current conference, as well as presentations made at previous ones;
- Roundtable Breakfasts - these are held monthly; information on the current one is found here, as well as presentations made at previous ones;
- Urban Leadership Series - information on the current session as well as presentations made at previous ones.
Education and Research: Includes the following sections:
1. Programs Overview - a description of their current and past research areas. Most of the areas are further discussed under the next two headings, but one area that only appears in this section is on Aging and Mobility;
2. Current Research under these topics: Urban Governance, Systems and Infrastructure; Economic Development and Environment; Urban Planning, Housing and Growth Management; Heritage and Culture.
3. Past Research - listing of references to past research done by the Institute in the following areas: Urban Governance, Systems and Infrastructure; Economic Development and Environment; Urban Planning, Housing and Growth Management; Transportation.
International Partnerships - a description of programs devoted to bringing Canadian expertise in the area of urban planning to other countries. A description of their activities in Cuba, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Philippines and the Ukraine are found here. In the Publications section one finds a number of documents relating to the Institute's international activities that are available for download.
3. From the very top menu
Newsletters - PDFs of the Urban Century newsletter back to 2004.
Documents are a mix of priced and free. Some are available in HTML or PDF formats; for others only the citation to the document is included.
Contact information
555 Richmond St. W #Suite 402
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3B1
555 Richmond St. W #Suite 402
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3B1
International Partnerships: (416) 365-0817
