Learner Reviews & Feedback for The City and You: Find Your Best Place by University of Toronto

The City and You: Find Your Best Place taught by Professor Richard Florida of the University of Toronto is excellent and outstanding. It is one of the best courses I have ever taken. I learned so very much from Professor Richard Florida. He and the course increased my abilities to think critically on a comparative level about all the cities in the world. This critical thinking skill will definitely help me in all of my future endeavours. The factual information that I have learned about cities from Professor Richard Florida is invaluable. I give this course my highest recommendation. Kudos to Professor Richard Florida for putting The City and You: Find Your Best Place course together. It is an outstanding achievement!!

Great course based on the premise of the central role cities are occupying in today's society and their increasing importance for the future. The course also discusses the problems that today's cities are facing. The coursework invites participants to really get to know their own cities, be analytical of their strong and weak points and finally challenges students into an exercise of choosing the best cities for them.

The course examples seem slightly biased towards North American cities, so this would be a point to be addressed in future iterations. Finally, would be interesting to adapt the Place Finder tool for different demographics, since several steps within are only suitable for adult professionals.

The course raises and enhances the understanding of the interrelation impact of economy and society on urban planning trends and approaches. Also, the forces that make cities successful. The diverse challenges facing growth and prosperity of cities due to progression and changes related to economics and social factors.

Excellent course!

Dr. Florida engages you through video introductions and thoughtful readings to consider more fully the role that cities play. It was very eye-opening to realize how spiky the world is and how much our choice of city impacts every aspect of our lives. Highly recommended.

Insights, Insights, and Great Insights!

One of the best classes I have taken online, it really gave me a valuable set of tools and insights to make decisions about my next move in life.

Worthy every minute I spent!

I really like this course, it is very informative, detailed, analytical and helpful for a person like me when I planning to retire and relocate to other warm city. Also, the videos and notes are excellent !

It provides tips to decide the place you want to live,and gives you the knowledge of the new urban revival and new urban crisis.Also leads you collect data and summarize a conclusion.

Great course for gaining a better understanding on what makes cities successful, what their challenges are, and how to compare them from an objective viewpoint.

Thanks Prof. Florida, you really opened my eyes to possibility of relocation as a serious endeavour for my future success and happiness!

The course helped me build a better understanding about which cities in general. There is a lot one can learn from this course.

Good to pay attention to this course: however, I expect more than what the course is giving. :)

Thank you Richard Florida....

Thank you for a most enlightening program and helping me confirm that the best place for me is right here at home in Toronto!

Excellent content, cutting edge issues and inspiring! Great added value for thinking and discussions around my work.

I loved it. Very good to keep track of the current conversation on cities. Thank you guys!

For me this course was really very useful. The knowledge gained helped me in my work.

Enjoyed the topics.. very engaging presenter.. hope he offers more courses here

I really enjoyed taking this course and thinking about my city.

Thank you Richard Florida sir & his team.

Very mindblowing and very strategic

Very useful and informative!

I really enjoyed this course

very professional struction

Really enjoyed the course!

Best course

Enjoyable and insightful, with lots of good readings. I would recommend it.