Stained Glass Urbanism Project is part of our long-term social innovation, to rethink religious institutions as part of our urban fabric, to research and imagine creative ways of interfacing institutions of faith with those of municipal governance and to rebuild policies and platforms for active partnerships toward a renewed social architecture.
This project has produced two studies and a series of events since 2005. The first, Living on the Streets researched the role of the institutional Christian church in broad projects of urban revitalization in a mid-size industrial town: Hamilton (Ontario, Canada).
The second, Toronto the Good, was an investigative report on the intersections of religious institutions more generally and the policy program for municipal renewal of a global city as reflected in the Official Plan of the City of Toronto.
The third (just released!), is an edited volume Think Different - Urban Religious Communities: Problem Solvers or Trouble Makers?, and was launched on November 6 and 7, at St. Paul's (Bloor St), Toronto.
