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We train the next generation of researchers, planners, and community leaders:

  • We host an annual summer institute for grad students and early career scholars, including:
    • Summer Institute In Inclusive Economies for a Just and Sustainable Future (Bogotá 2024)
    • Summer Institute in Economic Geography (with Jamie Peck, Toronto, 2026)
    • Experiential Field-based undergraduate summer courses in Bogotá (2024 & 2025), focused on comparative urbanism and inclusive planning
People sit on benches looking across water to the Toronto skyline, including skyscrapers and the CN Tower
2026 Summer Institute in Economic Geography
The 12th annual Summer Institute in Economic Geography takes place in Toronto in July 2026.  The institute takes a unique approach to advanced training, mentoring, and professional development for early-career researchers entering the field of economic geography by bringing together active young researchers from around the world and a small group of international faculty. It seeks to invigorate discussions and explore controversies across a diverse community, and to facilitate network-building, respect and understanding amongst the rising generation of economic geographers, many of whom have transitioned into successful careers in universities, research institutes, and the public and private sectors.
Planning the Inclusive City: Undergraduate summer course 

Held in Bogotá in June 2024 & 2025, this course invites ten to fifteen 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students from the Department of Human Geography at UTSC to gain an interdisciplinary and experiential perspective on planning and building more inclusive cities. Students learn about:

  • Planning and inclusion: Housing, care infrastructures, sustainable mobility, economic development, and urban democracy, with practical examples from the Bogotá context
  • Comparative urbanism: Learning across international contexts, with discussions around planning strategies and struggles for urban inclusion in Bogotá, Toronto, and Amsterdam
Group photo of the attendees of the 2024 Summer Institute
Summer Institute in Inclusive Economies for a Just and Sustainable Planet

Held in Bogotá in June 2024, this program brought together a diverse group of academics and practitioners and provided a platform to discuss interdisciplinary and policy-focused research aimed at fostering more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable economic systems. Specifically, the institute focused on the following areas:

  • Architecture and Inequality: Repurposing housing, infrastructure, and cities for economic inclusion
  • Nurturing the Commons: Place-based and solidarity approaches for a just planet
  • Measuring Inequality: Economic exclusion as a social determinant of health
  • Feminist approaches to economics and the care economy
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I (we) wish to acknowledge this land on which the University of Toronto operates. For thousands of years it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land. Statement of Acknowledgement of Traditional Land