York Centre for Education & Community's 2010 Summer Institute to explore engaged education

How can schools and communities work together to create innovative avenues to engage students in their education? That is the central theme of this year’s Summer Institute offered by the York Centre for Education & Community (YCEC) in the Faculty of Education. Presented Aug. 17, 18 and 19 at York’s Keele campus, this year’s program […]

"In-Between City" neighbourhoods face poor services and rough justice

Last week was not a good one to be living in the “in-between city”, the term urbanists use to describe areas wedged between the outer suburbs – with their sprawling residential neighbourhoods – and the downtown core of office towers, condos and cultural institutions, wrote Simon Black, a graduate student in the City Institute at […]

Professor Roger Keil: Cutting Transit City could increase racialized poverty, social dislocation

Economic spinoff arguments for transit can be complex, wrote NOW Magazine April 29 in a story about efforts by Toronto Mayor David Miller to save the Transit City plan: If people use their cars less, for example, they may have more cash to spend on clothes or theatre tickets, but there might be less work […]

Panel to highlight two suburbia research projects based in York Region

A lunchtime panel featuring presentations by York researchers and urban planning professionals will wrap up two recent research projects tomorrow – "In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability", based out of the City Institute at York University (City), and geography Professor Lucia Lo's "Infrastructure in York Region: A GIS Analysis of Human Services". The panel discussion, […]