Leandro Gabriel Santos is an impactful urban planner, researcher, policy analyst, and engagement specialist with six years of experience. As a Senior Planner and key member of CUI’s Applied Solutions Lab, he supported then led a series of city-building projects addressing post-pandemic main streets and downtown recovery, middle housing and office-to-residential conversions, transit construction mitigation, economic inclusion, and adaptive reuse of faith buildings.
Throughout his work, Leandro is committed to identifying pathways for meaningful engagement with equity-deserving groups to overcome the legacies of colonial systems, institutions, and urban planning processes. As a second generation Filipino-Canadian based out of Toronto, ON, Leandro understands the value of integrating different worldviews into the processes managing change in multicultural cities.
Leandro is a Candidate member of the Ontario Professional Planner Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning from Toronto Metropolitan University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Carleton University.
What is your favourite way to spend a day in the city?
I love walking around without a particular destination in mind, exploring neighbourhoods old and new, meeting up with friends, talking with strangers, and reading every plaque I stumble across.
