At Home in the North. A Home for All Northerners: Towards a Northern Housing Ecosystem Approach, At Home in the North, November 2024.

Kaupp, C., Herskovits, J. & McCartney, S. (2024). Creating a home for our youth: Final report. Nishnawbe Aski Nation, June 2024.

Yellowknives Dene First Nation and Together Design Lab. Yellowknives Dene First Nation Housing Strategy, Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Yellowknives Dene First Nation, March 2024.

Dextrase, H., Herskovits, J. & McCartney, S. Identifying and Codifying a Continuum of Care for Nishnawbe Aski Nation – A Systems Approach, Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation, October 2023.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Together Design Lab. Nishnawbe Aski Nation Housing Strategy, Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation, August 2022.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Together Design Lab. Towards Integrated Infrastructure Planning: A recognition of the need for wholistic community development to end the housing emergency, Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation, February 2021.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Together Design Lab. Stuck in crowded homes with nowhere to go: How COVID-19 demonstrated the failures of an incomplete housing continuum in Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory, Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation, March 2021.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Together Design Lab. Designing for communities: The need for housing diversity across the NAN territory and the well-being impacts of forced homogenization. Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation, January 2020.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Together Design Lab. Moving from gaps to goals: Defining community-based housing metrics in Nishnawbe Aski Nation. Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation, August 2019.

McCartney, Shelagh; Kaupp, Courtney and The Laneway Project. Turning Laneways in to Public Places: Toolkit. Toronto, ON: Together Design Lab, 2019.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Together Design Lab. Nishnawbe Aski Nation response to the First Nations National Housing and Infrastructure Strategy, Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University and Nishnawbe Aski Nation, September 2018. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10576.46089

Nibinamik First Nation, Wakahegun 241, Together Design Lab. Nibinamik First Nation Needs Assessment. Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, 2018.

Eabametoong First Nation, Together Design Lab. Eabametoong First Nation Needs Assessment. Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, 2018.

McCartney, Shelagh, Finlay, Judy and (S) Herskovits, Jeffrey. Deconstructing Housing Evaluation: Creating a framework for appropriate metrics in Mid-Canada Corridor First Nations Housing assessments. Together Design Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University, 2017.

Belsky, E., DuBroff, N., McCue, D., Harris, C., McCartney, S., and Molinsky, J.  Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development: Correcting Planning Failures and Connecting Communities to Capital. Joint Centre for Housing Studies at Harvard University with support of the Ford Foundation, 2013.

McCartney, Shelagh. Language Matters – Ten Morphologies a New Lense for Slum Space, Working Paper Series Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. 2013.

Belsky, E., McCue, D. and McCartney, S.  Building Assets for the Urban Poor by Design: Strengthening Urban Planning and Design in the Global South.  Joint Centre for Housing Studies at Harvard University with support of the Ford Foundation, 2012.

McCartney, Shelagh. Decentralization of Indigenous Housing Policy:  Land and Housing Policy, Land Title Reform and Housing Delivery in America from pre European contact to Present.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2007.

McCartney, S. (2025). Informing the Informal: Examining the Morphological Production of Informal Built Landscape Types. SAGE Open, 15(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440251358108

Christensen, J., Goldhar, C., McCartney, S., Riva, M., Schiff, R., & Herskovits, J. (2025). Reframing Indigenous housing policy in northern Canada. International Journal of Housing Policy, 25(3), 529–539. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2024.2435093

McCartney, S. (2024). Language matters: types of informal built landscapes in global metropolitan regions. Journal of Urban Design, 29(6), 646–668. https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2024.2325406

McCartney, S., McKay, M., Herskovits, J., & Saunders, J. (2024). Designing an Inclusive Housing System: Towards a First Nations community-led housing supply process. Plan Canada, 64(4), 12-14. 

McCartney, S., & Stewart, B. (2024). Looking Back to Look Forward: Training the catalyst practitioners of tomorrow. Landscape|Paysages, 26(4), 28-31. https://www.csla-aapc.ca/sites/csla-aapc.ca/files/Landscape%20Paysages/CSLQ0424-FINAL.pdf

McCartney, S., & Rosenvasser, X. (2023). Affordability is king–with private bedroom: exploring the mismatch of students’ housing preferences in constrained housing markets. Housing Studies, 39(11), 2806–2826. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2023.2224252

McCartney, S., & Rosenvasser, X. (2023, August 10) Why old, shared dorms are better than new, private student residences. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAM.mc5svxd3d

Christensen, J,m Goldhar, C., Herskovits, J., McCartney, S., Riva, M., & Schiff, R. (2023, April 18). Community Self-Determination can Address the Northern Housing Crisis. Policy Options. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2023/04/community-self-determination-can-address-the-northern-housing-crisis/

McCartney, S., & Rosenvasser, X. (2023). Not Your Parents’ Dorm Room: Changes in Universities’ Residential Housing Privacy Levels and Impacts on Student Success. SAGE Open, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231178540

McCartney, S., Rosenvasser, X. (2022). New student residence unit typologies: introducing Housing Unit Classification (HUC), a framework for understanding student socialization. Journal of Housing and the Built Environ 38, 443–465. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-022-09950-4

McCartney, S., Lister, N-M., & Herskovits, J. (2022). Codesign, collaboration and systems change: Reflections on innovative cross-cultural and interdisciplinary practice centred on action in landscapes of conflict. In H. Zaner, S. McCartney, & S. Vangjeli (Eds.), A Landscape Approach: From local communities to territorial systems (). New York, NY: Applied Research and Design Publishers (AR&D). 

McCartney, S., & Rosenvasser, X. (2022). Privacy Territories in Student University Housing Design: Introduction of the Hierarchy of Isolation and Privacy in Architecture Tool (HIPAT). SAGE Open, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221089953

Sotomayor, L., Tarhan, D., Vieta, M., McCartney, S., & Mas, A. (2022). When students are house-poor: Urban universities, student marginality, and the hidden curriculum of student housing. Cities, 124, Article 103572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103572

Zander, H., McCartney, S., & Solano, S. (2022). Landscape approach : from local communities to territorial systems (First edition.). Applied Research + Design Publishing https://appliedresearchanddesign.com/product/landscape-approach

McCartney, S., Herskovits, J., & Hintelmann, L. (2021). Developing occupant-based understandings of crowding: a study of residential self-assessment in Eabametoong First Nation. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 36(2), 645–662. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-020-09768-y

McCartney, S., Arkilander, P., Desandoli, E., Grout-Brown, F., Jamshidi-Moghadam, P., Lebel-Pantazopoulos, L., Malthaner, R., Molloy, E., & Nicholson, S. (2021, February 4). How Cities can Unlock the Potential of Laneway Housing. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AAM.r5xsxpf6y

McCartney, S., & McKay, M. (2019). What is Measured Defines the Crisis. Plan Canada, 59(3), 51-53. 

McCartney, S. (2019). Our voices: Indigeneity and architecture. The Canadian Architect, 64(3), 37-38. https://www.canadianarchitect.com/canadian-architect-march-2019-issue/

McCartney, S., Herskovits, J., & Hintelmann, L. (2018). Failure by Design: On-reserve First Nations’ housing crisis and its roots in Canadian evaluation frameworks. The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 38(2), 101-124.

Mccartney, S. (2018, November-December). Shaping Justice and Sustainability within and beyond the City's Edge: Contestation and Collaboration in Urbanizing Regions, 48th Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference, 4-7 April 2018, Toronto, Canada. Town Planning Review, 89(6), 645+. http://dx.doi.org.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/10.3828/tpr.2018.43

McCartney, S., Atlookan, E., Kaupp, C., Missewace, R., & Sugarhead, W. (2018). Restructuring First Nations Housing Need Through Community Driven Metrics. Ontario Planning Journal, 33(6), 21-23. 

McCartney, S., & Krishnamurthy, S. (2018). Neglected? Strengthening the Morphological Study of Informal Settlements. SAGE Open, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018760375

McCartney, S. (2017). Ottawa Power on the Third Coast. In D. Ibañex, C. Lyster, M. White, & C. Waldheim (Eds.), Third Coast Atlas Prelude to a plan. Cambridge, MA and Barcelona:  Harvard University and ACTAR, 2017. https://actar.com/product/third-coast-atlas/

McCartney, S. (2016). Re-Thinking Housing: From Physical Manifestation of Colonial Planning Policy to Community-Focused Networks. Urban Planning, 1(4), 20–31. https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v1i4.737

McCartney, S. (2016). SOFT SYSTEMS, BUILT FORM: Urban Expansion of Fast Growing Cities. In J. C. Jackson, R. Grant, & P. Davila (Eds.) Urban Ecologies. Toronto, ON: OCAD Press, 2016. http://urbanecologies2013.com/

McCartney, S., Atlookan, E., Sugarhead, L.,, Herskovits, J., & Trnavsky, K. (2016). (Re)Imagining Our Community: Changing the planner and planning with First Nations youth. Plan Canada, 56(4), 18-21. 

McCartney, S., Herskovits, J., & Trnavsky, K. (2016). Indigenous Housing: Towards a model supporting community health. Alternatives Journal, 42(3), 4. 

McCartney, S. (2015). Planning Policy for Indigenous People: Collaboration or coercion?. Ontario Planning Journal, 30(6), 2-3. https://ontarioplanners.ca/OPPIAssets/Journal/Issues/30-6-Journal-FINAL-interactive-V3-postNov5.pdf

Trnavsky, K., & Herskovits, J. (2015). Indigenous Planning. Ontario Planning Journal, 30(6), 22. https://ontarioplanners.ca/OPPIAssets/Journal/Issues/30-6-Journal-FINAL-interactive-V3-postNov5.pdf

McCartney, S. (2014). Compact City Metrics: Questions of urban sustainability. The Journal of the Ontario Association of Architects, 22(3), 34-35. 

McCartney, S. (2013). Foundation for the Gridded City. In Liber Amicorum.Rick Haldenby. Cambridge, ON: Riverside Press. 

Bhatia, N., D’Hooghe, A., McCartney, S., & Martire, F. (2011). Public Form and the Periphery: The case for a ‘plinthesis’. On Site Review, 25, 54-57. https://issuu.com/onsitereview/docs/25identity

Busquets, J.,  Cohen, Y., & McCartney, S. (2009). Barcelona in the Gallery of Grid Cities. In Cerda I La Barcelona Del Futur: Realitat versus Projecte. Barcelona:  Diputacio Barcelona. https://www.cccb.org/ca/exposicions/fitxa/cerda-i-la-barcelona-del-futur/29912

McCartney, S. (2009). A Changed Context. The Canadian Architect, 54(7), 31-33. 

McCartney, S. (2008). The Evolution of Designers as Global Actors in Fast Growing Globalising Cities of the Rest. In GSD 08 Platform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

The Dialectics of Privacy in Architecture and Urban Design. J.A. Cox in Why Does it Look Like This Here? (online blog). June 28, 2024. https://whydoesitlooklikethishere.com/f/the-dialectics-of-privacy-in-architecture-and-urban-design

They got a university spot — now they’re vying for a bed. Why some Ontario schools won’t be able to house students this fall. Toronto Star. (print and online). May 2, 2024. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/they-got-a-university-spot-now-theyre-vying-for-a-bed-whysome-ontario-schools/article_01982284-fb79-11ee-8e44-f3a11a44d633.html

Time to rethink Toronto’s tall buildings. Globe and Mail. (print and online). March 1, 2024. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/toronto/article-time-to-rethink-torontos-tall-buildings/

Not your Mother’s Dorm Room. Tea for Teaching (podcast). March 6, 2024. https://teaforteaching.com/331-not-your-mothers-dorm-room/

McCartney, Shelagh and (S) Rosenvasser, X. “Why old shared dorms are better than new private residences” in The Globe and Mail. August 13, 2023.

Garden Suites and their place in Toronto’s Housing Market. The Final Word at CJRU (radio). August 5, 2022.

Coronavirus: Group mobilizes to help Ontario First Nations communities during pandemic. Global News. (print and online). April 23, 2020. https://globalnews.ca/video/6860672/coronavirus-group-mobilizes-to-help-ontario-first-nations-communities-during-pandemic?fbclid=IwAR3qEOQEiUin8o_QyTZ78LNmh0zZIzFATjTlJrpgGjGiVYVTK-oyYlfAg4o

Indigenous architects design a sovereign future. Now Toronto (print and online). October 18, 2018. https://nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/indigenous-architects-design-a-sovereign-future/

Why seniors and students make the best roomies. Local Love (print and online). October 18, 2018.

WE Day Toronto. Excalibur York University Community Newspaper (print and online). September 30, 2018.

NAN and Toronto Metropolitan University team up on housing project. TB News Watch (online). September 25, 2018.

Toronto Metropolitan partners with First Nations communities to tackle housing crisis. CBC News (online). September 22, 2018.

The Indigenous Housing Crisis. Star Metro Toronto (print edition). September 20, 2018.

Toronto Metropolitan partners with Nishnawbe Aski First Nations to address ‘desperate’ housing crisis. Toronto Star (print and online). September 19, 2018.

A new partnership could see First Nations designing their own homes. Vice News (online). September 19, 2018.

Huge demand for student housing makes it a lucrative opportunity for investors Financial Post (print and online). May 31, 2018.

Toronto Metropolitan Architecture Students Tackle Student Housing Crisis. Urban Toronto (online). January 15, 2018.

Toronto Metropolitan DAS collaborative looks to tackle student housing crisis. Canadian Architect (online). January 8, 2018.

Horror stories from off-campus housing. Macleans (print and online). December 6, 2017.

Could a new approach to First Nations housing be a game-changer? CBC The National (television 15 min segment on research projects). November 1, 2017.

Northern Ontario First Nation residents get to design their own homes in pilot project. CBC News (online). November 1, 2017.

Design of Everyday Places and Homes Can Heal Wounds. TedxToronto MetropolitanU. February 11, 2017.

Laneway houses: the future of affordable urban living? CBC News (online).
July 3, 2014.

Rental Housing Trends in Toronto. The Grid and Spacing Magazine (print), October 3, 2013.

Infill on the Upswing. Ottawa Magazine (print). August 26, 2013