North America, Women and Urban SDGs: An Urban Paradigm Shift Towards Gender Equality

Urban Thinkers Campus (The City We Need NOW!)

Jay Pitter

Award-winning Placemaker and Author, Canada

Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author whose practice mitigates growing divides in cities across North America. She also shapes urgent city-building conversations through media and academic platforms. Jay was recently the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning by the University of Toronto and shortlisted for the Margolese National Design for Living Prize. Her forthcoming books, Black Public Joy and Where We Live, will be published by McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada. She is currently the Planner-in-Residence at the University of Waterloo and a Visiting Fellow at University of Windsor’s Law Centre for Cities. In addition to leading a portfolio of projects focused on public space design and policy, forgotten densities, mobility equity, gender-responsive design and healing  historically fraught sites, Ms. Pitter’s placemaking practice was retained to lead the development of the City of Toronto’s first ever Cultural Districts Program Proposal and its first ever Cultural District Master Plan.