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 wish her all the best with her future endeavours. As of August 27th, please send all inquires related to the MCRI “Global Suburbanisms project/the […]
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". The articles examines how Mississauga and other suburban municipalities in the GTA are beginning to build more distinctive "urban" centres. View the article.
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". In the article written by John Lorinc, Keil suggests that some degree of decentralization within the Metrolinx and TTC systems may be […]
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 viewed online. The talk featured a presentation by Jim Bailey (Senior Planner, City of Vancouver) and Ron Kellett (UBC), and a panel discussion.
Dr. Florian Koch (Department of History and Social Sciences Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia) will be presenting “Urban planning and governance processes at the city fringe: The case of Barranquilla, Colombia” as part of SUBURBTALKS on Tuesday, June 26 from 2:00-3:00pm in Room 626 in the York Research Tower. This presentation will report on recent […]
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 – getting people moving".
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 how the majority of victims of gun violence in Toronto are poor, racialized youth. View the article.
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 in Frankfurt, Germany . During their stay at York, they are conducting research with CITY faculty members Ute Lehrer and Roger Keil on the complicated relationships […]
The City Institute and the Global Suburbanisms MCRI Project at York University are proud to co-sponsor the Toronto launch of Rohan Quinby's new book, Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent, (Winnipeg: Arbeiterring Publishing 2011). This event will be held on Satuday, June 2nd at 4:00pm, at Type Books […]
May 10th 2012 – The CITY Institute is collaborating with the Toronto Public Space Initiative’s (TPSI) Community Engagement Research Division, York University’s Visible City Project, and Osgoode Law School’s Critical Research Laboratory to conduct research into various park governance and community engagement models utilized locally and internationally. Report One of this project titled Parks, People, and Participation […]