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Urban Policy at Munk
Chronicling the learning experiences of urban policy students at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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About the Course: ‘Seeing Like a City’
About the Course: ‘Seeing Like a City’
The world is now urban. We’ve known this for years. But the field of public policy has been slow to adapt.
Gabriel Eidelman
Aug 23
I hope you’re (not) hungry
I hope you’re (not) hungry
Access to affordable and nutritious foods is a significant challenge in the Bloor-Yonge area. I explore this issue more in my Google Earth…
Urszula Sitarz
Oct 9
East Bayfront: A Walking Tour
East Bayfront: A Walking Tour
Please enjoy my attempt at vlogging for the first time!
Amie Gibbs
Oct 9
Municipalities: “Creatures of the Provinces,” Or Empowered Partners?
Municipalities: “Creatures of the Provinces,” Or Empowered Partners?
The main idea that stuck with me in Week 4 of the course is the provincial-municipal (municipal-provincial?) relationship and the…
Casey Danielle Bas
Oct 9
Where’s our Thank You card?
Where’s our Thank You card?
When reflecting on the past lecture, nothing can be accomplished without intergovernmental support. The federal and provincial government…
Yasmeen Kamal
Oct 9
Toronto’s Financial District After 5PM: Homelessness and Hardship
Toronto’s Financial District After 5PM: Homelessness and Hardship
When I first moved downtown, the excitement was electric. I lived right in the heart of it all, near Bay-Adelaide Centre, where the popular…
Fizzah Chowdhry
Oct 9
Centrally Run City — City Chooses Its Fate
Centrally Run City — City Chooses Its Fate
One of the key points that emerged in last week's discussion was that despite the growing role of cities as innovation hubs and economic…
Thi Nguyen
Oct 9
The Annex: A Storied Neighborhood at a Crossroads
The Annex: A Storied Neighborhood at a Crossroads
The neighborhood of Annex is my temporary student home in Toronto. With little time to explore and missing the comforts of Vancouver, I was…
Alp Cetinakinci
Oct 9
Next Stop: The Frustrations of the TTC
Next Stop: The Frustrations of the TTC
If someone were to ask me what’s the first urban policy challenge I face in my neighborhood, the TTC subway service is the first thing that…
Yasmeen Kamal
Oct 8
Federal-Provincial Involvement in Cities
Federal-Provincial Involvement in Cities
This week, the readings and in-class discussions with alumni placed the federal and provincial governments front and center. In the context…
Alp Cetinakinci
Oct 8
The TTC’s Easier Access Program and Warden Station Construction: A New Chapter in Commuter and…
The TTC’s Easier Access Program and Warden Station Construction: A New Chapter in Commuter and…
Warden Station and the TTC’s Easier Access Program
Casey Danielle Bas
Oct 8
Returning to OPS… for the day!
Returning to OPS… for the day!
This week, our class took a feild trip to 777 Bay Street, at the OPS headquarters. We had the opportunity to speak with Munk School alumni…
Danillo Onetto-Bolefski
Oct 8
Why can’t our three (or four!) orders of government solve the housing crisis?
Last class the idea came up that something about municipalities gets in the way of them promoting affordable housing. From what I can…
Tashy Davidson
Oct 8
Aurora Town Square Instagram
Aurora Town Square Instagram
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Danillo Onetto-Bolefski
Oct 8
Bloordale in Transition: Culture, Development, and the Struggle
Bloordale in Transition: Culture, Development, and the Struggle
Moving In to Bloordale
Alex Carter
Oct 7
It’s Cinema! It’s Movie Magic!
It’s Cinema! It’s Movie Magic!
“Mr. Billy Flynn and the press conference rag
Urszula Sitarz
Oct 7
The Politics of Who Does What
One of the realities of politics is that you do what gets you re-elected. That is the way of life in living in a democracy, and no document…
William Pratt
Oct 7
Peel on the Brink: Will Urban Sprawl Devour Our Green Spaces?
Peel on the Brink: Will Urban Sprawl Devour Our Green Spaces?
Watch my video presentation here…
Gauri Chuttani
Oct 7
Hey Upper East Siders….
Hey Upper East Siders….
Gossip girl here, and I have the juiciest scoop since S snatched Nate from right under B’s nose. That’s right, it looks like things are…
Amie Gibbs
Oct 7
Housing Changes in Toronto’s Cabbagetown and Regent Park Neighbourhoods
Housing Changes in Toronto’s Cabbagetown and Regent Park Neighbourhoods
Cabbagetown and Regent Park are two adjacent neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto’s downtown east side. Cabbagetown’s borders are…
Tashy Davidson
Oct 7
The Philosophy of Play
The Philosophy of Play
I have been cycling everywhere since I moved to Toronto in late August. I first followed Google’s directions, which were never the shortest…
Thi Nguyen
Oct 7
Toronto’s Other Underground Pedestrian Walkway
Toronto’s Other Underground Pedestrian Walkway
Toronto is well known for PATH, the mostly underground pedestrian walkway. It holds a Guinness World Record for being the largest…
William Pratt
Oct 7
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