York and Ryerson Universities are pleased to announce “Searching for New Imaginings: Facing Challenges for Activism and Justice in the University,” a series of three events with Sarah Schulman, Distinguished Professor of English at The City University of New York (College of Staten Island). The series opens on Saturday, 8 February 2014 from 8:00–10:00 p.m. with an evening panel […]
The City Institute at York University and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies in cooperation with FES and the Department of Geography offer one or two study abroad opportunities to spend one or two semesters during the 2014-15 academic year at the Department of Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). While there is […]
REGISTER HERE for the Canadian Urban Institute's (CUI) Place Maker event "Good Density: The Elusive Search for Good Density. A Cure for What Divides Us?" will be hosted on February 11 from 7:30am - 9:30am at Innis College (2 Sussex Ave. Toronto, ON). Description: Suburbs hold the answers to many unanswered questions about urban design, community connectivity, housing affordability […]
Danielle Labbé, formerly a post-doctoral fellow with the Global Suburbanisms project (and contributor to Suburban Constellations) has just published book titled, "Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010" exploring how a rural village was absorbed into the city. From the publisher: Danielle Labbé considers a century of change to the settlement of Hòa […]
Professor William Jenkins book: Between Raid and Rebellion, was featured in The Bulletin. Jenkins book compares the Irish emigrant experiences in Buffalo NY and Toronto from the Fenian Raids of 1866-67 to the Easter Rising in Dublin of 1916.
Fine Arts Professor Janine Marchessault was featured in a recent YFile article. Professor Marchessault has just returned from China where an exhibition she curated called LAND/SLIDE possible futures is being showcased in the Canada pavilion at the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture in Shenzhen.
The City Institute is providing an opportunity for six PhD students, working on urban issues, to present a 20 minute paper based on your research that addresses the question “What it is that makes this research ‘critical’? This is an opportunity to check in with yourself and to share the ‘what’ or ‘how’ of the […]
Indepedent ezine Jadaliyya reviews The CITY Institute's "A Suburban Revolution?" Conference. The article also discusses the significance of suburbs and the attempts made at defining what a suburb is. Roger Keil is cited in this article and notes that instead of focusing on a specific definition of the suburb the conference adopts an inquisitive approach and is “…more […]
Professor Roger Keil provides his expert opinion in a recent Globe and Mail article titled "Fourteen ways to fix the GTA in 2014." The article asks planners, mayors, city-builders and visionaries to share their ideas to improve the GTA in 2014.
CITY Director and Professor, Linda Peake was recently featured in the 'Year in Review' section of the January 8th edition of Novae Res Urbis. Peake explains that "cities in the GTA are badly in need of a feminist intervention, making cities more navigable and friendly toward women. Construction of the west segment of the Mississauga Transitway begins. […]