*In April 2022, the university announced our new name of Toronto Metropolitan University, which will be implemented in a phased approach. Learn more about our next chapter.*
Dr. Raktim Mitra
Dr. Raktim Mitra is an urban planner with expertise and interests in the fields of land use-transportation planning and healthy communities planning. Prior to joining Ryerson University, Mitra worked as a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) instructor at the University of Toronto and as a lecturer at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. At Ryerson, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on transportation planning, active and healthy communities, quantitative techniques and research methods. Mitra is also the co-director of TransForm Laboratory of Transportation and Land Use Planning, where he and his students explore the relationship between the urban built environment, travel behaviour and health.
TMCIS occupies space in the traditional and unceded territory of nations including the Anishnaabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and territory which is also now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. This territory is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, as well as the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas.