Welcome from Program Director, Tiffany Muller Myrdahl
Welcome to 51社区黑料鈥檚 Urban Studies Program, a vibrant, interdisciplinary community dedicated to understanding and working to build better cities. Our community includes remarkable undergraduate and graduate students, award-winning faculty and faculty associates, outstanding staff, and exceptional alumni who examine the hows and whys of cities and urban regions.
The Urban Studies Program prepares students for leadership in addressing the multi-faceted challenges facing cities today. We are a graduate training program with 20 years of alumni who have assumed a diverse array of high-impact roles 鈥攎ayors, political strategists, senior planners, non-profit founders and leaders, development professionals, and other kinds of changemakers. In 2024, we launched a new undergraduate program in Urban Worlds. This program readies the next generation of thinkers and doers to understand and address pressing urban issues. Our curriculum at both levels provides an interdisciplinary, hands-on approach, inviting students to engage in cutting-edge urban scholarship and put theory into practice in our Urban Innovation Lab, one of SFU鈥檚 field schools, or in their co-op placements.
The faculty and faculty associates guiding these programs draw from significant social-science expertise and professional experience in critical areas, such as urban housing, sustainability, governance, mobility, Indigenous planning, equity, age-friendly cities, immigration settlement, urban data analytics, urban philosophy, and community-engaged research.
Join our community of Urbsters today!
