Resources

The following reference materials and reports have been compiled to align with the core themes of the CivicLabTO Academic Summit and illustrate relevant work related to recovery and rebuild around the world.

CivicLabTO Background

1\ General:

City of Toronto Report for Action (January 9, 2020): Advancing a New Culture of Innovation and Partnership
City of Toronto Statement: CivicLabTO: Post-Secondary Partnerships
City of Toronto Report (September 15, 2020): COVID-19: Impacts and Opportunities

2\ Poverty Reduction:

Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy: TO Prosperity
Action Plan (November 26, 2019): Toronto Poverty Reduction Strategy - 2019-2022 Action Plan
Impact Report (April 2021): Lived Experience Advisory Group

3\ CivicLabTO News Releases:

News Release (June 10, 2021): City partners with eight Toronto higher education institutions on CivicLabTO Academic Summit & Discussion Series

Resources By Theme

Economic Resilience

1\ Community Development:

2\ Further Research:

Weichselgartner, J., & Kelman, I. (2015). Geographies of resilience: Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept. Progress in Human Geography, 39(3), 249–267. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132513518834

Transit and Transportation

1\ City of Toronto:

CivicLabTO Common Curriculum session on Mobility & Public Transit (video).

2\ Further Research:

Basu, R., & Ferreira, J. (2021). Sustainable mobility in auto-dominated Metro Boston: Challenges and opportunities post-COVID-19. Transport Policy, 103, 197–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2021.01.006
Budd, L., & Ison, S. (2020). Responsible Transport: A post-COVID agenda for transport policy and practice. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 6, 100151–100151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2020.100151
Hafiz Suliman Munawar, Sara Imran Khan, Zakria Qadir, Abbas Z. Kouzani, & Mortoza Ali Parvez Mahmud. (2021). Insight into the Impact of COVID-19 on Australian Transportation Sector: An Economic and Community-Based Perspective. Sustainability (Basel, Switzerland), 13(1276), 1276–. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031276

Climate Change and Green Recovery

1\ City of Toronto:

TransformTO, Net Zero Strategy
TransformTO: Climate Action for a Healthy, Equitable and Prosperous Toronto - Report #2 - The Pathway to a Low Carbon Future.
TransformTO: 2019 Implementation Update
PollinateTO.
Pollinator protection strategy.

2\ Further Research:

Lewis, J., & Kelman, I. (2010). Places, people and perpetuity: Community capacities in ecologies of catastrophe. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 9(2), 191-220. Retrieved from https://www.acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/866
McVey, I., C. Sharma, T. Allan, J. Kyriazis, A. Douglas, P. Cobb, J. Mallette, L. Taylor, and S. Cooper (2016). Research and Information Gathering on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Final Report, 91 pp. https://climateconnections.ca/app/uploads/2015/01/Final-report-Research-and-Information-Gathering-on-Climate-Change.Jan2016-1.pdf
Paehlke, R. (2020). Greening Canada's COVID Recovery: A\J's founder shares his perspectives. Alternatives Journal, 45(1), 48+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A649103816/EAIM?u=yorku_main&sid=EAIM&xid=387d3cd9
Taherzadeh, O. (2020). Promise of a green economic recovery post-Covid: trojan horse or turning point? Global Sustainability, 4. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2020.33

3\ Women4ClimateTO Mentorship Programme

Women4ClimateTO Mentorship Programme empowers and supports women working on innovative solutions to help Toronto mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change. Through a combination of mentoring, networking and collaborative learning opportunities participants will be provided with the resources necessary to take their climate-related project or start-up business to the next level. Learn more and apply by November 28, 2021.

Stronger, Safer, More Just Communities

1\ City of Toronto:

2\ Further Research:

Homeless Hub at York University - https://www.homelesshub.ca/
Hulchanski, D. (2010). The Three Cities Within Toronto: Income Polarization Among Toronto’s Neighbourhoods, 1970-2005 Toronto: Cities Centre Press, University of Toronto. Available at http://www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/pdfs/curp/tnrn/Three-Cities-Within-Toronto-2010-Final.pdf and an earlier version: The Three Cities within Toronto: Income Polarization among Toronto's Neighbourhoods, 1970 to 2000
Stapleton, J. and Kay, J. (2015). The Working Poor in the Toronto Region: Mapping working poverty in Canada’s richest city April 2015 ISBN 978-1-927906-07-1. Available at https://metcalffoundation.com/site/uploads/2015/04/WorkingPoorToronto2015Final.pdf
United Way of Greater Toronto and The Canadian Council on Social Development (2003). Poverty by Postal Code: The Geography of Neighbourhood Poverty, 1981 to 2001

Planning and Adapting Public Space

1\ Research:

Gouveia, N., Kanai, C., Gouveia, N., & Kanai, C. (2020). Pandemics, cities and Public Health. Ambiente & Sociedade, 23. https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-4422asoc20200120vu2020l3id
Honey-Rosés, J., Anguelovski, I., Chireh, V. K., Daher, C., Bosch, C. K. van den, Litt, J. S., Mawani, V., McCall, M. K., Orellana, A., Oscilowicz, E., Sánchez, U., Senbel, M., Tan, X., Villagomez, E., Zapata, O., & Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J. (2020). The impact of COVID-19 on public space: An early review of the emerging questions – design, perceptions and inequities. Cities & Health, 0(0), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1780074

Art, Culture and Recovery

1\ City of Toronto:

City of Toronto, Public Art Strategy 2020-2030 https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/92e1-Toronto-Public-Art-Strategy-2020-2030.pdf
Spotlight on Toronto, Toronto's Film, Television and Digital Media Strategy https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/972e-spotlight-on-toronto-film-strategy-2017.pdf

2\ Further Research:

Anheier, H. K., Merkel, J., & Winkler, K. (2021). Culture, the Arts and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Five Cultural Capitals in Search of Solutions. https://doi.org/10.48462/opus4-3722
Banks, M., & O’Connor, J. (2020). “A plague upon your howling”: Art and culture in the viral emergency. Cultural Trends, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2020.1827931
Dümcke, C. (2021). Five months under COVID-19 in the cultural sector: A German perspective. Cultural Trends, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2020.1854036
Eikhof, D. R. (2020). COVID-19, inclusion and workforce diversity in the cultural economy: What now, what next? Cultural Trends, 29(3), 234–250. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2020.1802202
Jeannotte, M. S. (2021). When the gigs are gone: Valuing arts, culture and media in the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 3(1), 100097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100097
Meyrick, J., & Barnett, T. (2020). From public good to public value: Arts and culture in a time of crisis. Cultural Trends, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2020.1844542
Radermecker, A.-S. V. (2020). Art and culture in the COVID-19 era: For a consumer-oriented approach. SN Business & Economics, 1(1), 4. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-020-00003-y

Technology, Innovation and Equity

1\ City of Toronto:

Tech, Innovation, and Equity CivicLabTO Pre-Summit Discussion Series Session (video)

2\ Further Research:

Allam, Z., & Jones, D. S. (2020). On the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak and the Smart City Network: Universal Data Sharing Standards Coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Benefit Urban Health Monitoring and Management. Healthcare, 8(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8010046
Brannen, S., Ahmed, H., & Newton, H. (2020). Covid-19 Reshapes the Future. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep25198
Graziano, T. (2021). Smart Technologies, Back-to-the-Village Rhetoric, and Tactical Urbanism: Post-COVID Planning Scenarios in Italy. International Journal of E-Planning Research, 10(2), 80–93. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJEPR.20210401.oa7
Ho, C. W.-L., Caals, K., & Zhang, H. (2020). Heralding the Digitalization of Life in Post-Pandemic East Asian Societies. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 17(4), 657–661. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10050-7
Kunzmann, K. R. (2020). Smart Cities After Covid-19: Ten Narratives. DisP - The Planning Review, 56(2), 20–31. https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2020.1794120
Marston, H. R., Shore, L., & White, P. J. (2020). How does a (Smart) Age-Friendly Ecosystem Look in a Post-Pandemic Society? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), 8276. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218276