March 30 City Seminar – Shawn Micallef presents “How to fall in love with your city, while avoiding a culture war”

Shawn Micallef (Spacing Magazine) presents “How to fall in love with your city, while avoiding a culture war” as part of the City Seminar Series. This event will be held on …
March 9th- Book Launch for “Lumpencity: Discourses of Marginality / Marginalizing Discourses”, co-edited by Markus Kip

Markus Kip, graduate student with CITY, and will be promoting the launch of the new book “Lumpencity: Discourses of Marginality / Marginalizing Discourses”. Markus was…
Roger Keil appears on GlobalNews discussing density and public transit in North York
Roger Keil (FES) appeared on GlobalNews discussing density and public transit planning in North York. The interview request was made in response to the recent release of 2011 …
George Fallis quoted in recent Toronto Star article, “Teaching-only universities would cut education costs, author says.”
George Fallis (Department of Economics, York University) was quoted in a Toronto Star article about universities that focus solely on teaching and the costs associated with them.…
March 2nd City Seminar: John van Nostrand presents “Planning and Unplanning Toronto”

John van Nostrand (founding principal of planningAlliance) presents “Planning and Unplanning Toronto” as part of the City Seminar Series. This event will be held…
February 22 – CITY co-sponsors “Populating the New Transit Corridors: Vancouver’s Recent Experience along the Cambie Cooridor of the Canada Line”

The City Institute is co-sponsoring a presentation with the Neptis Foundation, the Cities Centre at the University of Toronto, the Toronto Society of Architects and the City of Vaughan.…
CITY staff and students participate in Research Month
February 1 – The City Institute staff and students participated in Research Month, which celebrates the achievements and diversity of York University’s research community.…


