Casino City?, the latest edition of the CITY institute’s City Seminar Series, was recently featured in Y-File. The seminar brought together local politicians, academics and activists to discuss the topic of casino development in Toronto. View the article.
Ute Lehrer (Faculty of Environmental Studies) was featured in a January 23rd Toronto Star article, “Condo residents try to stop Real Jerk restaurant from obtaining liquor licence in their building”. View the article.
As part of the City Institute’s “City Seminar Series”, this seminar entitled “Casino City?” will feature a panel that will critically address the current agenda to build a ‘mega-casino’ in Toronto. The seminar will be held on Friday February 1, 2013 from 12:30 to 2:30 in room 140, HNES Building, York University. Panelists will discuss […]
The CITY Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research jointly present “Precarious Work and Persistent Poverty in a Resettlement Site: A Study of Kannagi Nagar, Chennai″ with Karen Coelho (Madras Institute of Development Studies, Tamil Nadu, India) as part of the Urban Asia lecture series. This event will be held on Thursday, January 31st […]
The CITY Institute in partnership with the Department of Geography at York University and the Geography Alumni Association present “What We Talk About When We Talk About City Building” with John Lorinc.John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist who specializes in urban affairs. He is the author of The New City (Penguin, 2006), and has written for various […]
The CITY Institute and Faculty of Environmental Studies welcome Michael Logan and Norah Forrest, from the Ontario Growth Secretariat, to York University for a talk on the province’s Growth Plan for the Golden Horseshoe and beyond. This talk will be held on Tuesday, January 22nd from 1:00pm – 2:30 pm in HNES 142. Everyone is […]
Each year, Next City publishes its list of 77 people, places and ideas that have changed cities in its Disruption Index and in 2012 CITY Institute director Roger Keil made the cut. In their article the arbiters at Next City note that the Global Suburbanisms MCRI “is challenging the notion of cities and suburbs being […]
The upcoming January 11th City Seminar on Homelessness Research was the topic of a recent YFile article. The article discusses the works of the Stephen Gaetz, Paula Goering and Valerie Tarasuk, the three guest lectures for Friday’s event. View the article.
As part of the SUBURBSTALK series, Dr. Alex Schafran (Paris School of International Affairs) presents “The Strange Case of the Bay Area”. This event will be held on Monday, January 14th in Room 305 York Lanes from 1:30-3:00pm. Alex Schafran recently completed his PHD in City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. […]
The CITY Institute and the Canadian Homelessness Research Network jointly present a special CITY Seminar on Homelessness Research. Please join us for a snapshot of what’s new in homelessness research and how that research may be used to inform and support decisions that contribute to solutions. Paula Goering (Research Lead, At Home/Chez Soi, Mental Health […]