Notre travail

Motivé par le travail de l’IUC sur la reprise des centres-villes en réponse aux répercussions de la COVID-19, l’objectif de ce travail est de comprendre comment les espaces de bureaux vacants et sous-utilisés présentent une occasion de transformer les centres-villes canadiens en des endroits dynamiques, équitables et durables.

Visualizing Density is a pilot project created by the Canadian Urban Institute to help planners, designers, elected officials, residents’ groups, and private sector builders design more complete communities and adapt existing ones over time. This work aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation about managing growth and building great communities in Ontario.

How do 400+ housing organizations, experts, and advocates feel about Canada’s National Housing Strategy? “What We Heard” compiles their observations and urgent suggestions to ensure the plan meets its targets and cuts homelessness in half.

This report is an invitation to discover Victoria, to dip in and out, visiting its corners and its main streets, to hear how the city is moving. It reflects what we heard and offers some of the best guidance Victoria can offer.

In Windsor, we heard diverse perspectives on what it’s like to live there, what people are concerned about, how they view the city and its institutions, and how they are coping with—and driving—change.

This technical report provides a scan of the ways eleven Canadian cities and urban regions structure their responses to affordable housing and to homelessness. Selected jurisdictions are Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Peel Region, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and the Halifax Region. This data was collected from public sources and, where possible, verified through interviews during 2021.

Unboxing Uptown is the result of a nine-month research and engagement project completed by the Canadian Urban Institute (CUI) with the City of Brampton. Research for this project revealed that approaches to creating main streets in the context of new development are nascent and evolving. The City of Brampton has a unique opportunity to learn from and improve on this work.

This report presents three possible scenarios for Canada’s downtowns to provoke a sharp re-thinking, spur dialogue and inspire bold action. The report makes the case for why downtowns matter, and why the experience of COVID-19 presents a profound, radical opportunity to rethink and remake them.

Our report share findings drawn from the opinions of 180,000 Canadians, and reveals how urban leaders banded together to tackle their cities’ most pressing problems during the first 365 days of COVID.

Our new report shines a light on the impacts of COVID on Canada’s main streets, and offers dozens of targeted actions to strengthen local economies, neighbourhoods, and communities.

La recherche sur les effets de COVID-19 sur les villes canadiennes au cours des 100 premiers jours de la crise montre que nos expériences avec la pandémie ont largement dépendu de qui nous sommes et de l'endroit où nous vivons.

24 indicateurs clés du logement qui donnent un aperçu du marché du logement de Toronto et des défis de logement considérables auxquels les résidents sont confrontés dans les conditions actuelles et prévues