Shelley Hornstein’s (Faculty of Fine Arts) recent publication entitled “Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place” was featured in an article in today’s Y-File. Read the full article.
York University, through the City Institute (CITY) and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES), is part of a winning proposal for a major new international graduate student training program. “The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” is funded for an initial 4.5 year period […]
Anders Sandberg (Faculty of Environmental Studies) was quoted in a December 10th Globe and Mail article, "The need for aggregate puts the GTA between a rock and a hard place". The article discusses the growing demand for aggregate use in the Greater Toronto Area and the controversy surrounding where quarries should be located. Read the full […]
Shelley Hornstein, a faculty member with CITY, will be promoting her new book Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place. The launch will be held on Sunday, December 18th from 6-8pm at the Gladstone Gallery in the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen Street West). This event is presented by Swipe Design and Ashgate Publishers.
Wolfgang Andexlinger, a visiting scholar with CITY from the Institute for Urban Design and Spatial Planning, University Innsbruck, Austria, is one of the winners of the 'Österreichischer Baupreis 2011', a prestigious Austrian prize. Wolfgang won this award as part of the group YEAN_Network for Spatial Research Studies and in the category for Organisations & Networks. […]
On Wednesday, November 30, please join us to hear Christian Mettke, PhD candidate at the Darmstadt University of Technology and current Visiting Scholar at the CITY Institute, present "It's Time to Stop the War on Cars: Public Transit in Toronto." Christian's doctoral thesis examines the changing urban, institutional and political context of public transit provision […]
On November 29, 2011, join us for a special session on the ins and outs of publishing in both scholarly and popular formats. Speakers will include publishers' representatives Douglas Hildebrand and Stephen Kotowych, as well as CITY Director Roger Keil and research fellow Simon Black. The session will take place from 12:30 to 2:00 pm […]
The City Institute is pleased to announce the launch of the new website for the Global Suburbanisms project. Visit Global Suburbanisms to keep up with our ongoing research, find out about the seminars, workshops or conferences we will host, read our “Suburbanicity” blog and share news and ideas through Twitter.
Marianna Valverde (Director, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto) presents "Exclusion, Expulsion and Extraction: The death of planning? A critical look at some current governance issues." Valverde argues that it is time to consider new city-wide mechanisms for democratic planning that address geographic, economic and cultural inequalities, and that are forward looking rather […]
Roger Keil (Faculty of Environmental Studies) was recently quoted in a YorkRegion.com article by David Fleishcer that compares urban sprawl to a complicated Ponzi scheme. View the article.