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Ahead of the Federal Election in October, the Toronto Star has allowed post-secondary students to become Star digital subscribers for free! Known as the Vote2019 Offer!
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LEAVING: DOSA MAHAL, RESTAURANT
Story by USP student John Nicolas Jerney about a local Bloordale eatery. John Nicolas Jerney is currently a contributor for the West End Phoenix which is a local periodical community newspaper.
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Co-President - Nikki Pagaling
Co-President - Ian Hwang
Secretary - Bianca Gornik
Treasurer - Lizzy Marcus
Social Media Director - Neekoo Zand
DenCity Journal Director - Daria Mancino
Upper Year Representatives - Jack McCrossin & Nathan Wener
Lower Year Representatives - Daniel Habesha Endale & Arishah Mazhar
We look forward to serving the USP student community this coming year. Follow us on social media for info on upcoming events and programs!
IG - @urssuuoft
Twitter - @urssuuoft
Facebook - Urban Studies
Students Union (URSSU)
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8-80 Cities, a partner in our course INI 437Y, is looking for volunteers.
We are 8-80 Cities, a non-profit organization that brings our urban community together to enhance mobility and public space so that together we can create a more vibrant, healthy, and equitable city. We are currently recruiting volunteers for the first week of October (Oct 1- Oct 4) at various times to help us collect data for our "Safe Streets" analysis report.
Our Project
Our Project "8-80 Streets" currently has been working on 3 works over the past year that focuses on building safer streets in Toronto by integrating design prototypes into Toronto's streetscapes to slow down traffic and achieve the City of Toronto's vision to get traffic fatalities down to zero. As you may have heard in the news earlier this month, we recently finished the "8-80 Danforth," a project under 8-80 Streets that was able to implement pop-up bike lands and a street makeover along Danforth Ave. Working with the Danforth community, we were able to inspire and ignite tactical urbanism and invigorate change in local residents.
Our new project "8-80 Pineway" will be focusing on a residential school neighbourhood of Pineway within Northeastern Toronto. As this project gets started, we will require some volunteers to help us collect traffic speed data with radar guns we recently acquired, each shift lasting around 2 hours. This data will help provide the 8-80 team with a better understanding of the speed issues at hand within Pineway and help us develop ways to build safer streets. If this interests you, we would love to connect with you!
Please visit https://www.880cities.org/8-80-streets/ to sign up and learn more of this and other upcoming volunteer opportunities in the next couple of months! You can also contact Brandon at brandon.miles@mail.utoronto.ca for more information.
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CP Planning and Black Urbanism TO have partnered to facilitate key conversations on the culture of the Black community between Allen Road and Keele Street within the Eglinton Avenue West neighbourhoods in Toronto.
In support of this initiative, we've launched the Black Futures on Eglinton Project. We're hiring a team of Black youth aged 18-30 who will apply artistic practices to learn, from community, and co-produce a report and mini documentary on their findings. This is a 6 month commitment for a part time opportunity that also provides tools and training in support of the artists' development.
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Call for Students
Last June, Sidewalk Labs submitted their proposal to create a neighbourhood of the future on Toronto's eastern waterfront. The proposal aims to shorten commute times for families, make housing more affordable and create a new standard for a healthier planet. Every Sunday, Sidewalk Labs opens their doors to the public from 12-6pm at 307 Lake Shore Blvd. E. Meet with our staff who can walk you through our ideas, explore a full-scale prototype of the ground floor of a building made of timber, and view a large-scale model of Quayside through dozens of animated vignettes that are embedded within the parks, streets, and buildings. If you can't make it on a Sunday, reach out to hello@sidewalklabs.com to book a tour for your group.
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Profile: Dr. Kofi Hope
Kofi Hope and Zahra Ebrahim are co-teaching a new USP course this term, INI 432: City Builders Lab: How Policies are Made
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What inspired you to focus on 'How Good Policies are Made' in this City Lab Builders course?
This course was inspired by a lot of conversations between myself and Zahra Ebrahim. About blindspots and issues we were seeing in the work of city building in the city. About the ways really smart people were tending to not always make the most effective policies. We thought that part of what might be helpful for students was a class that allowed them to discuss, dissect and examine policymaking outside of the regular theoretical approaches. In a class that focused on the people who make policy and what the factors are that influence their decision making. And ask them to do a lot of critical reflection on how their own experience and identity influences their own approach to city building. At the same time we thought some of the tools we've used in professional practice, like Narrative Storytelling and Human-Centered Design would be really fun to introduce to UofT students and could be part of their 'tool box' for approaching city problems.
What does a typical INI432H class look like?
It's a real mix, but based in many community practices we've both used. There is always a check-in where we encourage the class to share highlights from their lives, problems they are thinking about and any personal things going on that are affecting how they are engaging with the class today. Then usually we have a presentation or a discussion activity. We do a lot of facilitated discussions, small group discussions and other exercises to get people moving around the room, thinking and engaging. Some classes are full workshops where we teach a new skill, like our two lectures on Human-Centered Design. They all end with a preview of next week's readings and usually some work to rearrange the furniture in the room back to where it was when we arrived.
What motivated you to teach urban studies courses?
This course was developed when I was a Bousfield Visitor last year with the Geography and Planning Department. It was so successful, we wanted to continue it and Urban Studies was a perfect home.
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Black Students Talk With Black Profs!
Friday, October 4, 2019 12:00 - 2:00 pm, Centre for International Experience, 33 St. George Street
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Where We Gather: Streets of Toronto
Monday, October 7, 2019 6:30pm-8:00pm
Bloor/Gladstone Public Library, 1101 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON
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Thinking of Grad School? - A brown bag lunch discussion with URSSU
Monday, October 14, 2019 12-1:30 pm, Innis Residence Events Room
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Where to from here; who's driving?
Wednesday, October 16, 2019, 200 Simcoe St. North, Oshawa ON
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Registration is open: First-Generation Students Get Ready for Midterms
Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30-2:30 pm, Centre for International Experience, 33 St. George St. Please register at CLNX.utoronto.ca (under Events & Workshops Calendar > Leadership, Mentorship & Clubs)
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Where We Gather: Public Life vs. Digital Life in Toronto
Tuesday, October 22, 2019 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Runnymede Public Library, 2178 Bloor Street West
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