Brent Toderian

Brent Toderian is a top national and global thought leader on cities and an acclaimed, award-winning practitioner with 32 years of experience in advanced urbanism, city planning, transportation, urban design, and complex urban change management. He assists cities, states, agencies, and progressive developers in creative and responsible city-building around the world. He has advised many global cities and city regions, including Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Groningen NL, Reykjavík, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Medellin, and many North American cities.

Toderian's establishment of TODERIAN UrbanWORKS (TUW) in 2012 followed 6 years of significant achievement as Vancouver, Canada’s Chief City Planner (2006-2012). He earned his reputation as a hands-on visionary and city-changer, overseeing all aspects of city-building, including visioning, policy, plan-making, architecture, and design approvals.

Toderian was the Manager of Centre City Planning and Design and Chief Subdivision/Neighbourhood Planner in Calgary, where he pioneered innovative approaches to visioning, design review, special initiatives, and the creation of the award-winning Centre City Plan. His career started with 9 years as a leading Ontario-based city planning and design consultant, with award-winning projects from Toronto to Yellowknife.

A passionate & diverse practitioner, Toderian was the founding President of the Council for Canadian Urbanism (CanU) for almost 10 years, a regular columnist on "City-Making" with CBC Radio in Canada, a contributing writer with Fast Company and many other publications, and an active voice in many global organizations related to cities. He is a highly sought-after international practitioner, writer, speaker, and teacher on issues of advanced urbanism. He was twice voted one of the “100 most influential urbanists of all time” by Planetizen in 2017 & 2023.