Sean Hertel and Roger Keil of the Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group are taking their show on the road, leading an ignite session at next month's OPPI Symposium. The annual meeting of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute gives Keil and Hertel a chance to discuss the group's efforts to break down stereotypes and build bridges, […]
As the Toronto mayoral race candidates' transit plans, realistic and otherwise, have become a key part of the campaign. Incumbent Rob Ford unveiled his own $9-billion plan last week and former CITY Institute director Roger Keil offered his own comment on for a Toronto Star story on the plan's flimsiness. York University political professor Roger […]
The Canadian Homelessness Research Network's Stephen Gaetz spoke in St. John's, Newfoundland last month about the above-average rate of youth homelessness in the city. He cited, as a key issue, the need for the federal government to address a "Housing First" system, to provide shelter augmented by supports: “The key idea behind it is that […]
The journal African Studies includes two new articles by researchers with the Global Suburbanism's project's Africa cluster. Chloe´ Buire's "The Dream and the Ordinary: An Ethnographic Investigation of Suburbanisation in Luanda" looks at how the social order of Angola's capital is reproduced as "individual dreams of home ownership meet top-down attempts to discipline urban behaviours." "New African […]
A recent article in The Toronto Sun looked at how the condo boom is changing the face of Toronto and FES professor Ute Lehrer offered her opinion, saying developers need to concentrate more on quality, as the quantity of condos increases. "We talk too much about overbuilding in Toronto, but we don’t talk about the […]
A new article by Douglas Young and Roger Keil, appearing in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research explores the "In-between city" and how politics and infrastructure have shaped, and are shaping the suburbs of Toronto. From the abstract of Locating the Urban In-Between Tracking the Urban Politics of Infrastructure in Toronto: We pose the […]
Along with the Wychwood Barns Community Association, SSHRC,and McMaster University, York University will host Edward Keenan, city hall reporter at The Grid for his talk, “St. Clair West: The Building Blocks of Urban Vitality.” Keenan will discuss his observations about the recent political history of Toronto as well as his thoughts on the importance of […]
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 […]