“They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.” Written and sung by Joni Mitchell in the 1970s, those lyrics still hold true today as pavement and concrete structures squeeze out Toronto’s native bumblebees, say York University researchers in a new study published March 21. The research found areas of the city with the most pavement, […]
York University’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) will present the Michael Baptista Lecture Series 2021-22 on March 24 at 6 p.m. The lecture will be presented in a virtual format and will consider the theme “Uprooted: Race, Land and Dispossession in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Inequality in Latin America […]
Bill C-27 is a welcome sign that the government is taking Big Data seriously, but it needs some serious finessing before it’ll do more than reinforce the status quo By Kean Birch for the National Post Last week, the federal government tabled Bill C-27, the digital charter implementation act, which covers consumer privacy, data protection […]
Welcome to the July 2022 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our past updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Jose Etcheverry on building a 7-generation community in Markham. Read the Research Spotlight Dayna […]
What really matters to you? This is the question that 7-generation Markham is trying to address to co-create the first 7-Generation City learning from the past and looking to the future to thrive in the present. EUC Professor José Etcheverry is leading York University’s engagement in this multi-stakeholder project seeking to re-examine community through intergenerational […]
Assistant Professor Credentials PhD, Geography, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria MSc, Geography, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria BSc, Geography, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria Research Keywords Fluvial Geomorphology, Tropical Rivers, Extreme Events, River Sensing, and Machine Learning Contact Information 4700 Keele St, Toronto ON M3J 1P3 416-736-2100 aolusola@yorku.ca Google Scholar Profile | fgeelab.org […]
What is the relationship between infrastructure and jurisdiction? How can remaking the material systems that sustain collective life enact Indigenous jurisdiction? How can the “just transition” to sustainable economies be imagined and infrastructured to foreground Indigenous knowledges and governance systems? These are the questions that Osgoode-EUC Professor Dayna Nadine Scott and project co-director Professor Heidi […]
Assistant Professor Credentials PhD, Virginia Tech MA, University of Waterloo BSc, Addis Ababa University Research Keywords Smart mobility and equity; travel behavior; disability; older adults; accessible urban and digital spaces; human-computer interaction (HCI); Uber and Lyft; accessible transportation; extreme weather; platform work; urban design. Graduate Supervision I supervise students in the graduate programs in Environmental […]
This year’s festival, FRACTURE, will take place online and in person and will examine the restorative phases after disruption. This year’s theme invites conversations across disciplines that consider pedagogical, environmental and artistic approaches to the concepts of rupture and wreckage and how humanity and the environment can heal and progress in the aftermath. LEARN MORE
On Friday, May 20th 2022, Professor L. Anders Sandberg and fourth-year student Baillie Weiderick, both from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, and Brian MacLean of Lost Rivers travelled together to attend and learn from a plant diversity workshop and medicine plant walk, hosted by Indigenous Elders and Anishinaabe teachers. The […]