September 2011 - Roger Keil contributed to a recent report on Urban Challenges and Prospects published by the University of Toronto's Cities Centre in advance of the Ontario election. View the full report, and view Roger Keil's comments.
Eliot Tretter (University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography and the Environment) will be presenting “Branding Austin ‘Live Music Capital of the World’” as part of CITYTALKS. The presentation will be held Friday, September 30th from 12:30-2:00pm in HNES room 141. Everyone is welcome. Eliot Tretter (University of Texas at Austin, Department […]
On September 22, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES), the Goethe-Institut and the City Institute at York University (CITY) will jointly present "Intrinsic Logic - Global Times: New Global Cities", part of the series The Future of Cities. The presentation and panel begin at 6:00 pm in the Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond […]
Several new visiting faculty members and students will be with us during the fall. Dr. Wolfgang Andexlinger is from the Institute for Urban Design and Spatial Planning at the University Innsbruck in Austria. He has already been here briefly earlier this summer, but will be joining us this week for the fall semester. PhD Candidate […]
The Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES) and the City Institute at York University (CITY) jointly present the City Seminar: an interdisciplinary series of presentations and discussions on urban landscapes, past and present. The first City Seminar of the 2011/2012 year, titled "The Intrinsic Logic of Cities: Towards a New Theory on Urbanism", […]
Robert McDermid was featured in an Inside Toronto article about pre-election funding announcements. His comments were also featured in Yfile.
The recent publication “In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability” by Roger Keil, Patricia Burke Wood and Douglas Young was featured in the August 31 edition of Novae Res Urbis, in an article titled "In-Between Cities". Please click here to download the NRU issue.
As part of the MCRI "Global Suburbanisms" research project, we held a graduate summer school in Leipzig, Germany in the summer of 2011. The students' experience in the course was featured in a Y-File article today written by MES students Josh Neubauer and Gwen Potter. Click to read the full article: “York University MES students […]
Roger Keil and Ute Lehrer were on CBC Radio's Metro Morning show with Matt Galloway discussing the "Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st century" research project. Roger was talking about the scope, content and research program of the project. Ute was talking about a recent graduate summer school course that was part […]
The City Institute mourns the passing of a great Canadian urbanist. Jack Layton was an inspiration to all of us who care about cities, their people and their environments. We are proud to have hosted him as part of our City Seminar series in 2007. His talk was appropriately titled "Canada's Urban Future" and is […]