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茄子直播 planning collaboration with community group in Thorncliffe Park featured in Maclean's

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Mosque in Thorncliffe Park. 茄子直播 master's students in planning worked with the Thorncliffe Park Women's Committee to help them with developing neighbourhood priorities for cultural, recreational and economic renewal (photo by Eric Parker via Flickr)

Maclean's reports that universities are increasingly partnering with local residents and non-profit organizations in their communities. The magazine highlights a project where 茄子直播 master's students in planning worked with the Thorncliffe Park Women's Committee to assist them in publishing a booklet on neighbourhood priorities for cultural, recreational and economic renewal.

The magazine quotes 茄子直播 President Meric Gertler talking about how the success of 茄子直播 and the city are entwined. 

鈥淓verything we do using our intellectual resources and our energy from our students and faculty to make Toronto a better place ends up helping us,鈥 he says. 鈥淲hen we go to recruit faculty from across Canada and around the world or when we go out to recruit students from across Canada and around the world, Toronto is a big part of our offer.鈥

The article mentions that 茄子直播 is considering a possible multidisciplinary 鈥渟chool for cities鈥 to address complex urban issues. And that in 2015, 茄子直播's Shauna Brail was appointed the presidential adviser on urban engagement to foster partnerships in the city.

Stephanie Cirnu, who will graduate this spring, says she and her classmates learned from listening to the community through workshops and interviews.

鈥淚 had always conceptualized urban planning and design as more of a technocratic exercise,鈥 she says to the magazine. 鈥淚 now see any design is the product of community participation in the process.鈥

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