Jennifer Keesmaat Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change /euc/tag/jennifer-keesmaat/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:23:11 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.7 Jennifer Keesmaat /euc/profile/jennifer-keesmaat/ Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:48:04 +0000 https://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=profile&p=16704 About Jennifer Keesmaat As Chief Planner and Executive Director of the City of Toronto, Jennifer Keesmaat (MES ’99) has changed the local dialogue on planning and urban design from frustrations and complaints about planning into an energized conversation full of hope and optimism for North America’s fifth largest city. Her dedication, energy and visionary approach […]

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]]> In first person: EUC Alumna Jennifer Keesmaat on what kind of job Tory is doing, how the pandemic has changed Toronto and the secret to affordable housing /euc/news-story/in-first-person-euc-alumna-jennifer-keesmaat-on-what-kind-of-job-tory-is-doing-how-the-pandemic-has-changed-toronto-and-the-secret-to-affordable-housing/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 14:50:52 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=news-story&p=3372 By Joanna PachnerSpecial to the Star In 2018, Toronto’s scrappy chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, ran for mayor on a platform of creating a more affordable, sustainable, livable city — one experienced at “the scale of a neighbourhood,” as she puts it. Last year, the pandemic largely confined us to that scale, whether we liked it or […]

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