September 25th, 2014 Position Title: Research Administrator Department: The City Institute at York University (CITY) Term of Employment: Contract — one year, with a possibility of renewal Band Level / Rate of Pay: $18.55/hour Hours of Work: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, 24 hours per week, 4 days per week Reports to: HR Business Partner, Office […]
On Thursday 9 October, the City Institute at York University (CITY) invites you to the co-sponsored seminar: "Closer to the Riders: Options for a successful public transport in Germany and Europe" presented by Dr. Heiner Monheim Prof. Dr. Heiner Monheim Primary at raumkom Institute for Spatial Development and Communication, Trier and Bonn, Germany "Closer to […]
On Friday 3 October, the City Institute at York University (CITY) presents: “Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea” by Jesook Song Jesook Song is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The […]
Congratulations to Linda Peake, Director of CITY for being awarded the LA&PS Award for Distinction in Research, Creativity or Scholarship. She has been awarded in the category of Research for her work at York University. Mentioning Linda's involvement the article states: Peake describes herself as a critical human geographer, exploring the feminist geographies of […]
CITY institute Director Linda Peake and colleagues Roger Keil (Faculty of Environmental Studies) and Sean Hertel will be presenting at the Council of Canadian Urbanists (CanU) 6th annual summit. The summit gathers Canada's top leaders in urbanism. Entitled “Cities at the Edge – Urbanizing Suburbia in the Regional City”, the event will explore trends, issues and […]
Sean Hertel and Roger Keil of the Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group are taking their show on the road, leading an ignite session at next month's OPPI Symposium. The annual meeting of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute gives Keil and Hertel a chance to discuss the group's efforts to break down stereotypes and build bridges, […]
As the Toronto mayoral race candidates' transit plans, realistic and otherwise, have become a key part of the campaign. Incumbent Rob Ford unveiled his own $9-billion plan last week and former CITY Institute director Roger Keil offered his own comment on for a Toronto Star story on the plan's flimsiness. York University political professor Roger […]
The Canadian Homelessness Research Network's Stephen Gaetz spoke in St. John's, Newfoundland last month about the above-average rate of youth homelessness in the city. He cited, as a key issue, the need for the federal government to address a "Housing First" system, to provide shelter augmented by supports: “The key idea behind it is that […]
The journal African Studies includes two new articles by researchers with the Global Suburbanism's project's Africa cluster. Chloe´ Buire's "The Dream and the Ordinary: An Ethnographic Investigation of Suburbanisation in Luanda" looks at how the social order of Angola's capital is reproduced as "individual dreams of home ownership meet top-down attempts to discipline urban behaviours." "New African […]
A recent article in The Toronto Sun looked at how the condo boom is changing the face of Toronto and FES professor Ute Lehrer offered her opinion, saying developers need to concentrate more on quality, as the quantity of condos increases. "We talk too much about overbuilding in Toronto, but we don’t talk about the […]