SFU City Program

Understanding cities and empowering its residents to shape its future is at the heart of the City Program at SFU Continuing Studies. 

Led by director Andy Yan, the award-winning City Program convenes practitioners, scholars and teachers from various community building and research fields to teach in our professional development courses. Our courses are open to those who are new to the fields of design, planning and development, as well as to seasoned professionals.

We also offer public events throughout the year, and we are grateful to the City Program Endowment Fund for supporting our lectures and course programming.

Our city courses for Spring 2026 are now open for registration: 

Housing Policy Fundamentals (CITY102) | Starts January 20th, 2026 | Online 

Planning for Non-Planners: What You Need to Know about Community Planning (CITY101) | Starts January 21st, 2026 | Online 

Transportation Planning Foundations (CITY103) | Starts January 22nd, 2026 | Online 

Community Data Fundamentals (CITY106) | Starts February 18th, 2026 | Online 

Introduction to Sustainable Cities (CITY109) | Starts February 19th, 2026 | Online 

Giving Council a Piece of Your Mind: Writing Reports That Work (CITY251) | Starts March 9th, 2026 | Online 

Introduction to Landscape Architecture (CITY108) | Starts April 1st, 2026 | Online 

To browse all city courses: https://www.sfu.ca/continuing-studies/about/city-program.html