From January to April 2022, the City Institute will hold virtual professional training meetings for graduate and 4000-level undergraduate students who have great interest in urban studies. Once a fortnight CITY will hold writing sessions which will be monitored by a City Institute post-doctoral fellow who will provide writing tips and feedback. Every other fortnight […]
Last October 9, 2020, the City Institute at York University was proud to present Covid-19 and the City: Centres and Peripheries featuring: Harris Ali, York University; Samantha Biglieri, Ryerson University; and Roger Keil, York University.
April 15, 2019 | 11am – 12:30pm | 626 Kaneff Tower If you have not already RSVP’d, please do so by April 8th, 2019 to city@yorku.ca *please note that RSVPs are needed in order to ensure that we have quorum at this year’s AGM
On February 28th, the City Institute arranged a grant writing workshop for all CITY members to discuss various grant types, as well as advice on grant writing and strategies to put together a strong grant application package. The grant session was intended to specifically assist those at the graduate level and early career stage navigate […]
Feminist Methodology and the Global South February 8, 2019 | 1-3pm |749 Kaneff Tower Please join us for The City Institute’s Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group in the Winter 2019 Term Our reading group will be hosted by Assistant Professor Sylvia Bawa & Dr. Elsa Koleth Discussions will cover: The politics of conducting feminist research Conceptual challenges for feminist research Approaches to decolonizing research […]
Students in Professor Teresa Abbruzzese’s, CITY Executive Member, urban planning course in the Department of Social Science visited 307, the central office and experimental site for Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. 307 is a space dedicated to the co-creation of ideas facilitating Sidewalk’s vision of “people centered urban innovation.” The site operates as a living laboratory […]
