CityStudio Durham Success Stories

Fall 2020

Social isolation in seniors is a growing issue in Durham Region. The goal for this project was to develop a solution that the Region could apply to eliminating social isolation in Seniors, which involved creating ways to promote awareness and education on the barriers seniors in the community face when experiencing social isolation.

Fall 2020

The purpose of this project was to conduct research to support the Community Hub Working Group under the Health, Homelessness and Housing (H3) Committee that will help evaluate the effectiveness of homelessness hubs. The results provided the homelessness support team with research on best practices for homelessness hub models and benchmarks to measure the success of current hubs.

Fall 2020

What services do people with disabilities have difficulty accessing in Durham? Why do they have difficulty accessing them? Why is there limited feedback from residents around the barriers they face? The purpose of this project was to gather community feedback on what services people with disabilities are unable to access, why they aren’t able to access them, and why more feedback isn’t given about accessing services. This resulted in numerous suggestions for areas of improvement that.

Winter 2021

The objective of Durham’s Vision Zero Plan is to ultimately eliminate all serious collisions on Regional / Municipal roadways. Distracted driving is one of the major causes of collisions.

Winter 2021

The objective of Durham’s Vision Zero Plan is to ultimately eliminate all serious collisions on Regional / Municipal roadways. Speeding is one of the major causes of collisions.

How is success of a CityStudio project defined? It looks different for each project. CityStudio Durham is founded on principles of collaboration and co-creation and through our projects we celebrate partnership, new ideas, experimentation, creation of knowledge, collection of data and positive community.