What our graduates say about us. Contact the Director of the Urban Studies Program. It is not a program in Urban Planning, nor is it a program in Geography, or Sociology, or Political Science, or Economics. Cities are home to a majority of the world's population. They are home to much of the world's creative activity and to many of the world's problems.
Cities are our future.
The Program also provides students with plenty of opportunity to do field research. We are very fortunate to have Metropolitan Toronto as our laboratory for this field work. The best way to study a city is to live in it. We encourage students to study abroad for one year if at all possible. These agreements allow students to take courses at foreign universities and to receive University of Toronto credit for them.