Pandemic Archives - Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:45:27 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The future of cities in the wake of the pandemic: What will change? What should change? /euc/research-spotlight/the-future-of-cities-in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic-what-will-change-what-should-change/ Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:45:27 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=research-spotlight&p=4618 In late spring 2020, the premier of Ontario, alongside the mayor of Toronto, lifted the first COVID-19 lockdown in this city. Stores re-opened, restaurants re-gained some business via patio dining. The warm weather spurred Torontonians, tired of being cooped up in their homes, to venture outside. In fact, they flooded the streets. But the virus […]

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]]> The future of cities in the wake of the pandemic: What will change? What should change? /euc/news-story/the-future-of-cities-in-the-wake-of-the-pandemic-what-will-change-what-should-change/ Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:25:19 +0000 http://euc.yorku.ca/?post_type=news-story&p=4396 In late spring 2020, the premier of Ontario, alongside the mayor of Toronto, lifted the first COVID-19 lockdown in this city. Stores re-opened, restaurants re-gained some business via patio dining. The warm weather spurred Torontonians, tired of being cooped up in their homes, to venture outside. In fact, they flooded the streets. But the virus […]

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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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