2022-2023 Jay Pitter
Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker whose practice mitigates growing divides in cities across North America. She spearheads institutional city-building projects specializing in public space design and policy, forgotten densities, mobility equity, gender-responsive design, inclusive public engagement and healing fraught sites. In addition to leading a practice on the forefront of equitable urban planning, placemaking and policy development, Ms. Pitter is also transforming the urbanism canon. She has developed an equitable planning certificate course, which unconventionally

Selected Academic Courses
University
of
Waterloo--PLAN
403
(2020-2021)
University
of
Toronto−Geography
and
Planning
(2019-2020)
Canadian
Women
and
Cities
PLA1149−GGR1149−GGR2149
MScPl,
MA
and
PhD
Reading
Course
University
of
Detroit
Mercy−School
of
Architecture
(2019-2020)
Inclusive
Placemaking
and
Planning
for
Equitable
Cities
MCD5200
Toronto
Metropolitan
University
(Formerly
Ryerson
University)−School
of
Urban
and
Regional
Planning
(2017)
Multicultural
Cities
and
Planning
Policies
PL8101
University
of
Guelph-Humber−Media
Studies
(2015)
Contemporary
Narrative
AHSS2030
Selected Academic Lectures
Cornell
University,
Department
of
City
and
Regional
Planning
09.10.2021
Harvard
University,
Graduate
School
of
Design,
Urban
Planning
Core
Studio
|
09.04.2020
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology
(MIT),
Collective
Wisdom
Symposium
|
09.21.2018
Princeton
University,
Mellon
Forum:
The
Geography
of
the
Post-Pandemic
City
|
11.06.2020
Seneca
College,
The
Green
Citizen
Conference
|
10.28.2020
University
of
Alberta,
City-Region
Studies
Centre
|
11.16.2016
University
of
Toronto,
John
H.
Daniels
Faculty
of
Architecture,
Landscape,
and
Design
|
10.15.2020
University
of
Toronto,
John
H.
Daniels
Faculty
of
Architecture,
Landscape,
and
Design,
Commencement
Keynote
Speaker
Class
of
2021
|
Windsor
University, Windsor
Law
Centre
for
Cities |
09.22.2020