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. […]
Simon Black's 'Hip Hop in the City' course was recently featured in Toronto’s Spacing magazine which listed the course among the “10 Amazing Urbanism Classes to Take at University” in its fall 2013 issue. Simon Black is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science and a member of the CITY Institute. Click here for the full story.
On Friday November 29th, 2013, Professor and Acting Director of City Institute Linda Peake, presented a CITY Seminar on "Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban." Professor Peake is a geographer by training and has taught at York for over 20 years. Appointed to the Urban Studies program in the Department of Social Science in LA&PS, […]
If you didn't already have enough reasons to pick up the newest edition of Spacing, you can read about how the CITY Institute is one of ""8 Amazing 'Real-World' Urbanism Laboratories": In the latest issue of Spacing (Education and Urbanism in Canada), CITY Institute gets a mention on p. 48. "York, while located in a […]