By Barbara Rahder Hans Blumenfeld (October 1892 – January 1988) was a planner, architect, and professor, who worked in Europe, the USSR, and across North America. He is perhaps most well known for his significant role in shaping contemporary urban form through his work with the Metropolitan Toronto Planning Board. In this article, Barbara Rahder […]
Add pollution and costs from electricity generation to that list too By Mark WinfieldColleen Kaiser The Ontario Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) Annual Planning Outlook report released last week contains some very bad news for Ontarians in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, air quality, and future electricity costs. The directions laid out in the report also present […]
Mark Terry, a York University graduate, a faculty member with the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, and a research Fellow with the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research, is a recipient of the 2021 Order of Vaughan – the City of Vaughan’s highest civic honour. On Dec. 21, Vaughan Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua honoured Terry for his […]
Thaís Roberto What are the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and How Can Students Achieve Them? It's news to no one that the world is in desperate need of change. The climate crisis is reaching a point of no return. Social inequality has been exposed like never before with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
At the site of a massive COVID-19 outbreak at a meat-processing plant in southern Alberta, workers don’t want things to go back the way they were before. On a cold, windy November day, Freddy Vasquez cuts a small figure as the massive Cargill meat-processing plant near High River, Alta., looms behind him. "Now hiring," reads […]
by Hiba Sha'ath My dissertation examines the impacts of everyday bordering practices on the lives of sub-Saharan migrants with precarious status living in Tunis. Recent years have witnessed a growing securitization of migration along the Southern Mediterranean, made possible through funding and security cooperation agreements that are part of the EU’s efforts to harden borders […]
Students in York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) had an opportunity for innovative experiential education during the second virtual Planning Case Competition, held earlier this fall. The event, designed for Master in Environmental Studies (MES) planning students, was hosted by the MES York Planning Alumni Committee (MYPAC) and connects students with alumni […]
While some feel only a full public inquiry will get answers, others fear it would be a waste of time In interview with Prof Mark Winfield As opposition politicians at the National Assembly unite in calls for a full public inquiry into the deaths of seniors at long term-care homes during the first wave of […]
Olalekan Balogun is a recent PhD graduate in Physical Geography from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University. With a specialization in Climatology, his doctoral research focused on the climatic changes in the mesoscale wind and temperatures over the peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and their impacts on the surface energy balance […]
“Because at the end of the day, whether I’m trading my body for sex, or my mind for like a university degree, or I’m trading my ability to play soccer to be a professional soccer player, I’m still just trading what I can do, and what I can do well for the world. But the […]