Darren Patrick, a resident at the CITY Institute PhD Student competing his doctorates degree through the Faculty of Environment Studies shares his experience in Bologna on the latest evocation threatens to whitewash the red city's political legacy. Please take some time to review Darren Patrick and his experience. Darren Patrick is an academic, transnational activist, a member of Laboratorio […]
Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research The goal of this conference is to explore how sub/urban and regional austerity measures have altered fiscal arrangements, social services provisioning, labour-management relations, socio-political and electoral landscapes. Alternate Routes and the City Institute at York University (CITY) are seeking critical submissions that advance or challenge theoretical approaches, […]
More Information ...? The Student Move Transportation Survey Symposium took place on Monday September 21, 2015 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm. The survey will be rolling out within the next upcoming months. For more on the Symposium on Student Transportation Please check out the Student Move T.O Official website. . _____________________________ Please join us for a […]
Between June 14th - 16th, 2015 a Global Suburban Infrastructure Workshop took place at the University of Waterloo. Panelists included Pierre Filion, Roger Keil, Jean Andrey, and Clarence Woudsma. Please take some time to watch the entire workshop presentation upload online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2Q7gETX3o&index=6&list=PLZn5DvgmoJ1MZaLjWV2Ivtrofex-WX8LW
We invite applicants for a 2-day career development workshop for early career urban studies scholars to be held on Thursday, November 12th and Friday November 13th, 2015, at York University. The workshop is an opportunity to consider the career development issues of most relevance to those contemplating a job search in urban studies and related […]
Event: The City Seminar: Shanghai Urbanism: Reflections from the Outside in Date: October 2nd, 2015. 12:30pm - 2:00pm Location: Room 141, HNES Building, York University The City Institute will be hosting a City Seminar on "Shanghai Urbanism: Reflections from the Outside in." Under the leadership of Professor Ute Lehrer, nine graduate students went to Shanghai and […]
Volume 39, Number 3, May 2014, ISSN 0309-1317 Entanglements of Periphery and Informality in Mexico City Authors: Liette Gilbert and Feike De Jong Abstract - Mexico City is a well-known case of urban expansion. Most of the growth has been in its peripheries, occurring during two phases of housing privatization: a predominantly self-built urbanization by […]
Professor Ute Lehrer recently spoke to CTV News regarding the speed of development in the Port Lands area of Toronto. To watch the entire video clip, please click the associated link here.
Doug Saunders, author and international-affairs columnist at The Globe and Mail will deliver the Ismaili Centre Lecture on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 8:00 pm on the topic of Arrival Cities: How Immigration Succeeds and Fails on the Edge of the City. Register and purchase tickets here Click on the below poster for more […]
Graduate Student Exchange Frankfurt 2015 – 2016 The City Institute at York University and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies in cooperation with FES and the Department of Geography offer one or two study abroad opportunities to spend one or two semesters during the 2015-16 academic year at the Department of Human […]