Our Urban Innovation Café event series showcases the city-building insights of academics, thought leaders and practitioners. We’re pleased to announce the fourth event in this popular series of morning talks: Ryerson...
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In the last few weeks, Ryerson CBI has participated in several tours of the Sidewalk Labs “307” presentation centre with Ryerson staff, faculty and students. We organized these tours as…
While personal e-scooters have been seen on Ontario roads for years now, as of January 2020, e-scooters are now explicitly permitted under provincial law (up to 24 km/hour), under a…
The title of this post was a question posed at the first event of The Globe and Mail’s “National Housing Innovation Series” on December 6, 2019 in Toronto. The following…
Private transportation companies (PTCs) like Uber and Lyft offer convenient options to move around cities. But as these services have grown more popular, they’ve led to significant changes to individual…
The redesign of downtown Yonge Street has been years in the making, and now, a new vision for a people-first Yonge Street is really taking shape with the release of…
Yemi Adediji is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow of the Urban Analytics Institute at Ryerson University. An expert in collecting and interpreting “big data,” she leads research initiatives that seek to…
If public transit agencies, which deliver an essential service, can modernize their services using technology, they stand a chance of competing with automobiles and car-based ride-hailing services that Ryerson researchers…
Our Urban Innovation Café event series showcases the city-building insights of academics, thought leaders and practitioners. We’re pleased to announce the third event in this popular series of morning talks:...
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On July 30, we hosted the second in our Urban Innovation Café event series, “Hacking Surface Transit in Toronto.” Over 140 people attended to hear our panelists answer the question,…