The CITY institute is proud to co-sponsor and present Performing Diaspora 2013: The History of Urban Music in Toronto. This full day conference will feature the “scholarship…

A recent presentation given by FES grad students at a City of Toronto transit event was featured in the Huffington Post. The students had participated in a Critical Planning Workshop…

April 30, 2013 – The graduate students from the York’s Critical Planning Workshop presented at Toronto’s City Hall as part of the “Inside the Planners …

On April 2, MCRI’s principal investigator, Roger Keil, was among the academics, professionals and city staff participating in Toronto’s Chief Planner Roundtable…

Simon Black (Political Science) contributed an op-ed piece to the April 3 edition of the Toronto Star. The article, “How Martin Luther King’s legacy speaks to our Canadian…

On Thursday April 4, the CITY Institute presents the next in its series of SUBURBSTALKS.

Anna Kramer (University of Waterloo) and Christian Mettke (Darmstadt University of Technology)…

Carl James (Faculty of Education) was recently featured in a Toronto Star article on school suspension rates for black and aboriginal students. The article draws on a TDSB 2006 survey…

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 15th

Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure

in the 21^st Century 

A Suburban Revolution?

An international conference on bringing…

Roger Keil (FESs) was featured in a Y-File article on the recent York Research Gala on February 27^th, 2013. The Research Gala celebrates research excellence in the York community.…

Laurence Parker (Department of Biology), was recently quoted in a Los Angeles Time article which compared wild bees and domesticated bees. The article examines the importance of…

We are pleased to announce that Roger Keil (FES) has be awarded the President’s Research Excellence Award for his significant contributions to York University’s research…

Roger Keil (FES) was quoted in a recent York U article about the City of Toronto’s Chief Planner, Jennifer Keesmaat. The article, “Livable City”, the also notes…

Last week, CITY research fellow and resident PhD student Simon Black spoke to CHRY 105.5′s News Now about his new urban studies course, Hip Hop and the City. The course explores…

A collaborative research project between CITY and Goethe University in Frankfurt was recently feature in a Globe and Mail article, “City’ or ‘town’? Richmond Hill…

Casino City?, the latest edition of the CITY institute’s City Seminar Series, was recently featured in Y-File. The seminar brought together local politicians, academics…

Ute Lehrer (Faculty of Environmental Studies) was featured in a January 23rd Toronto Star article, “Condo residents try to stop Real Jerk restaurant from obtaining liquor…

Each year, Next City publishes its list of 77 people, places and ideas that have changed cities in its Disruption Index and in 2012 CITY Institute director Roger Keil made the  cut.…

The upcoming January 11th City Seminar on Homelessness Research was the topic of a recent YFile article. The article discusses the works of the Stephen Gaetz, Paula Goering and Valerie…

CITY welcomed Jennifer Keesmaat (Chief Planner, City of Toronto and FES alumni) at the October 5th City Seminar where she presented “Re-imagining Planning in Practice in Toronto”…

Ali Asgary (School of Administrative Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies) was featured in a November 20 Toronto Star article, “Density Toronto: When…

The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) present the Urban Asia series with five lectures from prominent researchers on major Asian cities. The presentations…

Roger Keil (FES) was featured in an October 05 Toronto Sun article, “Will province drag its feet on regional transit taxes?”,  in which he suggests that GTA residents…

Members and partners of the CITY institute recently received commendation for their work from the 2012 Heritage Toronto Awards.

In the category of book, Gene Desfor and Jennefer …

The recently held Transit Summit has received significant media coverage.

September 25, Y-File - Transit Summit at York: A Call For Action

September 28, OMNI News – Interview…

The City Institute at York University (CITY) and the Faculty of Environmental Studies present:

The City Seminar

Jennifer Keesmaat

Chief Planner, City of Toronto

“Re-imagining…

Janine Marchessault, an executive member at CITY, was recently awarded the Trudeau Fellowship prize from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. The prize celebrates outstanding…

CITY and York University recently announced a new PhD Program in collaboration with other universities and institutions from Toronto, Berlin and New York. This announcement was…

“The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the Nineteenth Century to the Present” connects researchers at universities in Berlin, New York and Toronto.…

The “Going to School: A Transit Summit” will take place on Friday September 28, 2012 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, followed by a reception.

This forum is a call to action for …

Please join us in welcoming Adam Charnaw and Lara-Marie Morh to the CITY Institute.

Adam had been volunteering with CITY for over a year while pursuing his undergraduate degree in …

Sarah Khan will be ending her time with CITY as our Research Administrator on August 24, 2012. She has accepted a full time position outside of the university. We will miss her and…

Robert McDermid (Political Science) was recently featured in a Globe and Mail article entitled,”How Toronto’s suburbs are trying to switch from subdivisions to density”.…

Roger Keil (FES) was quoted in the June 22nd issue of the Globe and Mail in an article entitled, “The solution to Union Station’s squeeze play will shape the city of the future”.…

The event co-sponsored by CITY, “Populating the New Transit Corridors: Vancouver’s Recent Experience along the Cambie Cooridor of the Canada Line” is now available to be …

Roger Keil (FES) and Ute Lehrer (FES) were recently featured on a local Richmond Hill TV program, “Perspectives with Jamie Young” on an episode titled “Transportation…

Simon Black (Political Science) has an op-ed in the June 6th issue of the Toronto Star. The article, “Youth violence in Toronto and our hierarchy of victimhood” discusses…

CITY is pleased to welcome two new visiting scholars to the Institute for the summer. Bernd Belina and Susanne Heeg are both visiting from the Department of Human Geography, Goethe-University…

May 10^th 2012 – The CITY Institute is collaborating with the Toronto Public Space Initiative’s (TPSI) Community Engagement Research Division, York University’s Visible…

The Re-Imagining Our Cities summit, jointly held by the CITY Institute and the federal NDP was featured in a blog by Wayne Roberts, a Canadian food policy analyst.

View the blog pos…

Ute Lehrer (FES) was featured in the May 4th isssue of the Toronto star, in an article entitled, “The Beach: Will the condo boom kill it or save it?”. Lehrer describes the…

Shelley Hornstein (Fine Arts) will be presenting at Contours of the City, an internatonal conference in Bologna, Italy. Her talk, Wrecking Ball Fanatasies In Modern Times, will…

Roger Keil (FES) recently gave a presentation for the City Talk series held by the University of Victoria. “The talk, Governing the City Without: The Challenge of Global …

The Re-Imagining Our Cities summit, jointly held by the CITY Institute and the federal NDP was featured in a recent article in NOW magazine.

View the full article.…

Robert McDermid (Political Science) was featured in a Financial Post article on a new approach to infrastructure planning in cities. The article, “Cities breaking down departmental…

Roger Keil (FES) and Matt Kellway (NDP MP for Beaches-East York) collaborated on an op-ed piece in the April 12th issue of the Toronto Star. The article, “Conservative budget…

NDP AND CITY INSTITUTE TO HOST SUMMIT ADDRESSING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FOR TORONTO

Friday April 13, 2012

The latest federal budget focuses heavily on resource extraction,…

The CITY institute and the Goethe Institute jointly present the “Future of Cities” Tour at Das Haus, on Saturday, April 21 from 2:00-3:00m. This event will be held at …

CITY is pleased to welcome Sarah Khan as the new Research Administrator for the institute. Sarah has her Bachelor of Arts from York and majored in Anthropology and Law & Society.…

George Fallis (Economics) has an op-ed article in the March 05 issue of the Toronto Star on the province’s plans for three new universities campuses.

View the article.…

Simon Black (Political Science) has an op-ed in the March 2nd issue of the Toronto Star. The article considers the impact of recent government reports on Ontario’s low income …