By Jean-Paul Addie and Roger Keil Toronto is a university town. But more and more, the weight of student numbers shifts out of the central city into the sprawling Canadian metropolis’s burgeoning sub- and exurbs. Clearly, the importance of the centralized campuses of the University of Toronto, Ryerson University and OCADU is not waning. However, […]
On May 27, CITY Institute director Linda Peake will deliver the Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture, “Rethinking Feminist Interventions into Geography,” at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, taking place at Brock University. From the conference program: In the current era characterized by anxiety and insecurity one must ask whether feminist work in geography […]
The CITY Institute partnered with the LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research, C .W. Jefferys Collegiate and Westview collegiate Institute on "A Healthy Community for Toronto's Youth: How Researchers and Youth can work together to push the envelope to effect change" The event took place June 2, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in Room 519 of the Kaneff […]
Newly appointed CITY Institute director Linda Peake summarizes the past year of activity and point to what lies ahead in her new director's message.
Skyscrapers in the Subdivision, a new article on NextCity compares the changes confronting suburbia in Montgomery Country, Maryland and York Region, Ontario. MCRI primary investigator Roger Keil and Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group co-ordinator Sean Hertel are featured in author Amanda Kolson-Hurley's tour of the fast-growing, diverse suburb of Markham. It’s tempting to view Keil […]
The third annual conference, “Metropolitan Temporalities” takes place from Nov. 20-22, 2014 in Berlin, and a call for papers is now open. What role does time play in the characterization of the metropolis and the global processes that sustain metropolitan life? Over the past three decades, both urban studies and globalization studies have predominately focused […]