Land Use Planning & Economy

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February 27, 2023

Abstracts due March 10 for Emerging Mobility Scholars Conference 'Cause or Solution? Urban mobility in an era of climate emergency'

Positive Zero Transport Futures and Mobility Network will host the Emerging Mobility Scholars Conference June 22-23, 2023 at the University of Toronto. We invite graduate students and postdoctoral fellows across Canadian […]

February 17, 2023

Michael Piper, Housing Multitudes at the University of Toronto imagines the future of suburbia, The Architect's Newspaper, February 17, 2023.

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January 17, 2023

Multidisciplinary U of T team partners with industry to launch Centre for the Sustainable Built Environment

Build more, pollute less: New academic-industry partnership to balance infrastructure needs with environmental integrity U of T Engineering’s newest research centre will develop innovative ways to meet the urgent and […]

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January 12, 2023

Paul Hess wins '2023 Equity Topics in Bicycle Transportation Paper Award'

Professor Paul Hess of the Department of Geography & Planning was awarded the "2023 Equity Topics in Bicycle Transportation Paper Award" by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Bicycle Transportation Committee […]

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January 4, 2023

Mobility Network welcomes Dr. Gaurav Mittal

We welcome Dr. Gaurav Mittal as a UTM Mobility Network Postdoctoral Fellow supervised by Professor Shauna Brail. Gaurav comes from an interdisciplinary background. He completed his PhD in human geography […]

November 30, 2022

'Streets are for people and are the hearts of our cities,' says Appleyard

The November 7, 2022 event Livable Streets 2.0 in Toronto, co-presented by Mobility Network and Suburban Mobilities, featured presentations and discussions centered around Dr. Bruce Appleyard's recent book "Livable Streets […]

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October 6, 2022

Just released: The Scarborough Greenway Network report

This report presents an ambitious vision for a connected Greenways network of off-road multi-use trails (greenways) in publicly owned corridors throughout Scarborough. Scarborough is fortunate in having major opportunities to […]

September 29, 2022

UTM-MN student researchers showcase mobility's wide-ranging impacts

Mobility Network presented its first UTM-specific event on September 21, 2022, celebrating research by five award-winning UTM graduate students who presented their projects and answered questions about their work. The […]

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September 28, 2022

Students present research on climate-resilient transportation at competitive symposium

The University of Toronto Transportation Alumni Network (UTTAN) hosted their fourth annual U of T student research competition symposium on September 20, 2022, on the timely theme "Reimagining transportation systems […]

Defining, measuring and analyzing transportation equity: Mobility Network Summer School

An international group of thirty students and postdoctoral fellows, along with eight instructors and facilitators, took part in Mobility Network’s first summer school, “Planning More Equitable Transportation Systems,” on July […]

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