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 Friday, March 30th in room 140, HNES Building from 2:30 to 4:00 pm. Everyone is welcome. Listen to an audio recording of the presentation. […]

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 a co-editor of this publication, which was a follow up to to a conference with the same held in March 2009. This event will be held on Friday, March 9th […]

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 Census information and this map showing density by census tract. Watch the full story.

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. Read the full article. Read the Y-File article.

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 on Friday, March 2nd in 305 York Lanes from 12:30pm-2pm. Everyone is welcome. Download poster. Listen to an audio recording of the presentation. Roger Keil (Director, CITY Institute) John van Nostrand […]

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. "Populating the New Transit Corridors: Vancouver's Recent Experience along the Cambie Cooridor of the Canada Line" will feature a presentation by Jim Bailey (Vancouver) and Ron […]

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. This event was put on by the Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation at York University.                 From left to right: Nishanthan […]