CITY welcomed Jennifer Keesmaat (Chief Planner, City of Toronto and FES alumni) at the October 5th City Seminar where she presented “Re-imagining Planning in Practice in Toronto”. See below for the media coverage this event received. October 3 | York University Y-File | Chief planner will look at public sector planning in shaping policy October 5 | […]
Ali Asgary (School of Administrative Studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies) was featured in a November 20 Toronto Star article, "Density Toronto: When disaster strikes, highrise neighbourhoods are a challenge for first responders". View the article.
CITY and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies jointly present "Contradictions in the Neoliberalization of the Urban" with Margit Mayer (Department of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin). This event will be held Friday, December 7th from 12:30-2:00 pm in room 305, York Lanes. Margit Mayer teaches comparative and North American politics at the Freie Universität Berlin, […]
CITY and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies jointly present "Urban cultures against right wing activism: Challenging the spatial hegemony of racism in East-German small towns" with Thomas Buerk (Critical Geography Berlin and HU Berlin). This event will be held on Friday, November 30th from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in room 749, York Research Tower. Thomas Buerk […]
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research jointly present “Socialities of Indignation: Denouncing Party Politicy in Karachi, Pakistan″ with Tania Ahmad (Department of Anthropology, York University) as part of the Urban Asia lecture series. This event will be held on Thursday, November 29 from 12:00-2:00pm in 626 York Research Tower. Tania is […]
CITY and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies present "High-Modernism and Mass Utopia in Twentieth-Century Urban Planning" with Dietmar Schirmer (Department of Political Science, University of Florida). This event will be held Friday, November 9th from 12:30 to 2:30 pm in room 280A York Lanes. Dietmar Schirmer,(Ph.D. in Political Science from Free University […]
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) present the Urban Asia series with five lectures from prominent researchers on major Asian cities. The presentations will be held on the last Thursday of the month from 12:00-2:00pm in room 626 of the York Research Tower. October 25 , 2012 | ALANA BOLAND […]