The CITY Institute is saddened to learn of the loss of the great urbanist Tony Coombes. Tony, through the Neptis Foundation, was a great supporter and partner in various CITY events and projects. He will be missed. COOMBES, Anthony Christopher: Born July 17, 1937 to Frederick (Ben) and Enid Coombes in Sydney, Australia, Tony passed […]
The recent conference Peforming Diaspora 2013: The History of Urban Music in Toronto, co-sponsored by CITY, was featured in the latest edition of YFile. The first annual conference was held on June 1st and featured the the “scholarship of budding Canadian hip hop academic alongside the oral histories of Toronto’s pioneering Hip Hop practitioners in order […]
Roger Keil (FES) was featured on Radio Canada International discussing the recently held conference, "The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present". This year's conference, co-presented by York University, CITY, and the University of Toronto, examined the theme of "Empire, City and Nature". Read and listen to the […]
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 […]
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." […]
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 […]
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 […]
On April 2, MCRI's principal investigator, Roger Keil, was among the academics, professionals and city staff participating in Toronto's Chief Planner Roundtable session on "Next Generation Suburbs." Spacing magazine's article on the roundtable notes that "With too many great lines and comments to list, [Keil] silenced the crowd and left moderator Keesmaat impressed. He even […]
On Thursday April 4, the CITY Institute presents the next in its series of SUBURBSTALKS. Anna Kramer (University of Waterloo) and Christian Mettke (Darmstadt University of Technology) will present “The death and life of 'transit city': Searching for sustainable transportation in Toronto's suburbs." Roger Keil and Sara Macdonald (York University) will discuss “Boundaries, metabolisms, landscape: […]
Carl James (Faculty of Education) was recently featured in a Toronto Star article on school suspension rates for black and aboriginal students. The article draws on a TDSB 2006 survey that shows black and aboriginal students were suspended at much higher rates than students of other backgrounds. James suggests that school administrators may not be not […]