CITY Talks: Christian Mettke To Speak on Public Transit in Toronto

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 […]

The CITY Institute at York Presents "Getting Published: A Primer for Faculty and Graduate Students"

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 […]

CITY Pleased to Announce New Global Suburbanisms Website

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.

November 15, 2011: Marianna Valverde presents "Exclusion, Expulsion and Extraction."

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 quoted in YorkRegion.com article “Urban sprawl same as Ponzi scam: Blogger.”

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.