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Mapping Black Urban Health in Toronto

The Mount Dennis Neighbourhood

The Mapping Black Urban Health project seeks to examine how urban planning and the built environment shape the health and well-being of Black Torontonians in predominantly Black neighbourhoods across the city.

BPUA partnered with the Black Planning Project and the Learning Enrichment Foundation (with funding support from the Foundation for Black Communities’s Black Ideas Grant) on the project to bring it to light.