Love teaching this course in which students partner with city agencies and non-profits in Pune, India to collaboratively brainstorm how to solve urban problems. This year, students from Ashoka University joined our class.
What if transit projects didn’t take decades to approve and build? In Pune, India, decisions happen fast. In Canada, are we too slow in addressing urgent urban challenges? A group of #UofT students investigated: https://t.co/3N84x2L19Z
What if transit projects didn’t take decades to approve and build? In Pune, India, decisions happen fast. In Canada, are we too slow in addressing urgent urban challenges? A group of #UofT students investigated: https://t.co/3N84x2L19Z
For the past 5 years, Prof. @aditimehta12 has taught @USPUofT students qualitative methods to investigate public spaces across Toronto & the GTA. Check out this story map designed by Anna Hein, showcasing 30+ research projects, and see the city in new ways https://t.co/JiZIg4VDZs
This semester @uspuoft students and @regentparkfocus residents/organizers co-designed media projects about immigration, policing, and redevelopment in their neighborhood.
Thank you to @uoftcities for supporting this initiative.
With support from @UofTCities, @USPUofT students in @AditiMehta12’s class have been collaborating with @RegentParkFocus to uncover histories about immigration, policing, + redevelopment in their neighbourhood. View their media projects here: https://t.co/VhY7wDCvqG
This semester with support from @UofTCities, @USPUofT students collaborated with @RegentParkFocus residents and organizers to co-create media projects about immigration, policing, redevelopment in their neighborhoods. Read more about their projects here: https://t.co/5VUqa6gISV
Toronto city-building orgs, contact me if you’re interested in hosting talented Urban Studies students on next semester on a specific project or research.
City builders: we are still looking for community partners for our 2nd year intro to urban studies course. Partners work w/ small teams of students in of February on city-building projects or work. Happy to be a sounding board for what that might look like for your org.
Public branch libraries play vital roles in immigrant communities & mobilize knowledge.
On Dec 7, @AditiMehta12 (@USPUofT) will discuss what public branch libraries mean to those communities & what they can teach us about #Culture & #Identity.
Register: https://t.co/ID8LC9tmEa
The Urban Studies Program is once again recruiting community partners. We are specifically looking for community partners to work with small teams of 2nd year students for 12 hr placements from February - March '23. #urbanstudies#communityengagedlearning#citybuilders#the6ix
Do you have a ton of questions about applying to grad school but aren’t sure who to ask? Join Professors David Roberts and Aditi Mehta for an informal grad school Q&A on Tuesday, November 1st from 4-5pm in the Events Room at Innis Residence (111 St. George Street). See you there!
Yesterday, we began our Mapping Inequities Fellowship program!
On day one, Fellows began building community and sharing their goals, and one of our Co-Directors, @AditiMehta12, gave a workshop on maps as oppression and resistance. We look forward to the coming weeks together!
Early view from JPAM: “In Harm's Way? The Effect of Disasters on the Magnitude and Location of Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Allocations” by Mark Brennan @MITdusp, @AditiMehta12@USPUofT, and Justin Steil @MITdusp.
https://t.co/kUkqnO4IbH