

Pitter is currently the John Bousfield Distinguished Visitor in Planning at the University of Toronto. She is the co-editor of Subdivided: City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity, and her forthcoming books, Black Public Joy and Where We Live, will be published by McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada in 2021. Jay also delivers keynote addresses for entities such as the United Nations Women and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has developed an equitable planning certificate course with the University of Detroit Mercy’s School of Architecture and taught a graduate level urban planning course at Ryerson University, among others. Pitter also makes significant contributions to urbanism theory and discourse. What distinguishes Jay is her multidisciplinary approach, located at the nexus of urban design and social equity, which translates community insights and aspirations into the built environment. 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. Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker whose practice mitigates growing divides in cities across North America.


up kids, I lived in this subdivision, and I never walked in the hills before. Pitter MES, Award-winning Placemaker and Author Jay Pitter Placemaking Mobilizing Communities.
