Conference of The World in the City looks at "Empire, City, Nature" - May 30 to June 2, 2013

The International Graduate Research Program – The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present – is holding its second annual Conference looking at the theme of “Empire, City, Nature”. Thirty-six PhD students will present on urban themes in a broad spectrum of disciplines, along with senior urban researchers […]

CITY Co-Sponsoring Urban Music Conference at York on June 1st

The CITY institute is proud to co-sponsor and present Performing Diaspora 2013: The History of Urban Music in Toronto. This full day conference will feature the "scholarship of budding Canadian hip hop academic alongside the oral histories of Toronto's pioneering Hip Hop practitioners in order to explore and uncover the history of Toronto Hip Hop." […]

Insight on transit from student participants of MCRI workshop featured in Huffington Post

A recent presentation given by FES grad students at a City of Toronto transit event was featured in the Huffington Post. The students had participated in a Critical Planning Workshop in Montpellier, France as part of CITY's MCRI “Global Suburbanisms” project. The article was written by  Imelda Nurwisah, an FES student who participated in the […]

FES students present at City Hall on their experience at the MCRI workshop in Montpellier, France.

April 30, 2013 - The graduate students from the York's Critical Planning Workshop presented at Toronto's City Hall as part of the "Inside the Planners Studio" event. The students shared their insights on how Montpellier is dealing with planning in regards to growth pressures, transportation issues and governance. This graduate course is part of the […]