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A team of 50 researchers and 18 partner organizations are involved in this seven-year research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Major Collaborative Research Initiative program. Housed at the City Institute at York University (CITY), this is the first major research project to take stock of suburban developments around the world and attempt to alter the dialogue around suburban life.

We are planning to analyze recent forms of urbanization and emerging forms of (sub)urbanism as well as the dilemmas of aging suburbanity. We broadly focus on the governance of suburbanization, that is, efforts to guide and regulate its development. It involves state, market and civil society actors and implies democratic deliberation and social conflict. The categories land, which includes housing, shelter systems, real estate, greenbelts, megaprojects, and infrastructure, including transportation, water and social services, serve as the two prime anchors upon which we hinge specific research projects. Examination of Canadian suburbanization and suburbanism will serve as a basis and comparative “control” case to understand suburbanization in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia.

News

Insight on transit from student participants of MCRI workshop featured in Huffington PostInsight on transit from student participants of MCRI workshop featured in Huffington Post

May 15, 2013

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 Works… Read more

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FES students present at City Hall on their experience at the MCRI workshop in Montpellier, France.

May 8, 2013

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 … Read more

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Spacing covers Roger Keil at Chief Planner’s Roundtable

April 19, 2013

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

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HIGHRISE recognized with Urban Leadership Award

April 3, 2013

Congratulations go to Katerina Cizek, director of the National Film Board-produced HIGHRISE, which was recognized among seven groups and individuals as a recipient of the 20Read more

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Welcome to Toronto after suburbs

April 2, 2013

Roger Keil

The inner suburbs in Toronto are places of great contradiction: hyperconnectivity and total lack of connectivity; universities and strip clubs; airport runways and … Read more

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This research is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through funding from the Major Collaborative Research Initiative “Global suburbansims: governance, land, and infrastructure in the 21st century (2010-2017).