Policing and Trust in the Hyper-Diverse City – Nana Yanful Neighbourhood Watch: Racial Profiling and Virtual Gated Communities – Asmaa MalikĪccessing Education: An Immigrant’s Story – Nicholas Davis Navigating the City with an Invisible Illness: The Story of Dorothy – Denise DaCostaĬulture and Mental Illness – Karen Pitter How We Welcome: Why Canada’s Refugee Resettlement Program Undermines Place-making – Sarah Beamish and Sofia Ijazįinding Space for Spirituality – Fatima Syed Wasauksing–Vancouver–Toronto: My Path Home – Rebeka Tabobondung Identity and the City: Thinking Through Diversity – Beyhan Farhadiĭoing Immigrant Resettlement Right – Doug Saunders Ultimately, Subdivided aims to provoke the tough but pressing conversations required to build a truly connected and just city. Through compelling storytelling and analysis, Subdivided’s contributors – a wide range of place-makers, academics, activists and journalists – ask how we can expand city-building processes to tackle issues ranging from transit equity and trust-based policingto holistic mental health, dignified affordable housing and inclusive municipal governance. We say that ‘diversity is our strength,’ but has a feel-good catchphrase prevented us from confronting the forces that seem to be separating and isolating urban communities? Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio-economic disparities that have produced worrisome divisions. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?

Subdivided by Jay Pitter