Jake Tobin Garrett Email & Phone Number

Bringing a decade of experience working in the Canadian city parks sector on city park policy, planning, and research with a particular expertise in public life measurement/evaluation, social impact, equity-based planning and policy development, park partnerships/governance, and climate resilience.Select recent projects- Project manage and co-write a business case for a community centre revitalization and expansion in Kitchener, Ontario. Sub-consultant to lead Jay Pitter Placemaking. Client: City of Kitchener. 2022.- Project manage the creation of a cycling equity toolkit. Sub-consultant to lead Jay Pitter Placemaking. Client: Various cycling and mobility organizations in Canada. 2022 - 2023.- Managing editor for the 2022 Canadian City Parks Report, including overseeing all editorial content and drafting stories for the publication. Client: Park People. 2022.- Report writer for the InTO the Ravines program impact report detailing program impacts, participant stories, and outcomes. Client: Park People. 2023.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Illustrations and cartoons that capture a sense of place and whimsy. Featured in Toronto Star, CBC, Chatelaine, Maisonneuve Magazine, Spacing and more. Working with clients such as Environmental Defence, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Deciem, Book City, Architectural Conservancy of Ontario, Due Course Productions, Park People, Gold Leaf Literary, and more. Commissions: jake@jaketobin.cajaketobin.ca

Working with Park People to manage the editorial content for the annual Canadian City Parks Report, which tracks the trends and challenges facing city parks in over 30 cities across the country.

Toronto, Ontario

- Managed and wrote or co-wrote Park People's major research reports into topics such as providing parks in dense urban neighbourhoods, the social impacts of parks in underserved communities, building climate resilient parks, and more. - Led the development of Canada's first public national city parks report, the Canadian City Parks Report and co-authored the 2019, 2020, and 2021 report. - Led the development of and managed the Public Space Incubator, a grant stream with a total of $340,000 given out in Toronto to spur creative public space activation in 2018 and 2019. Projects included plazaPOPS, Red Embers, Oculus Revitalization, and more. - Led major Public Life Study projects for the City of Toronto including the King Street Pilot Public Life Study (2018) and Toronto Islands Public Life Study (2020). Co-managed the TOCore Public Space Life Study (2016) in partnership with Gehl Architects.- Led major park governance studies for the City of Toronto, City of Vaughan, and Waterfront Toronto.- Co-led a study of how parks contribute to a sense of belonging with Doblin Canada for Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto (2017).

Toronto, Canada Area

Bylines in the Toronto Star, Electric Literature, Maisonneuve, Globe and Mail, Ground Magazine, Spacing Magazine, Municipal World, Hello Mr., Hayo, and more. Essay "Desire Line" was included in the 2017 Toronto Book Award-nominated collection Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer.

Toronto, On

Toronto, Canada Area

Toronto, Canada Area

Vancouver, Canada Area

Masters Of Science, Urban Planning

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology, Creative Writing (Double Major)