Three York University undergraduate classes sat in on a panel discussion about the history of Toronto hip-hop culture on March 20 that featured two prominent practitioners: rapper Maestro Fresh Wes and radio DJ Mel Boogie. Maestro Fresh Wes is a Canadian celebrity in both rap music and television (CBC’s “Mr. D”), while DJ Mel Boogie […]
By Dr. Frederick Peters, Visiting Scholar at CITY The City Institute at York University (CITY) accepted an invitation to join an international consortium of scholars and area experts to answer one of the Migration Calls of the EC Horizon 2020 program in a project called “Innovation for Inclusive Migrant Integration: Adaptive Public Service Support Platform,” […]
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 […]
Research Fellow at the City Institute, Dr. Frederick Peters returned this February, 2019, from teaching the capstone class in Urban Sustainable Development Policy in the Masters Program “Altervilles,” hosted by the prestigious Sciences Po, Lyon and the Université Jean Monnet held in Saint Étienne, France. As Visiting Professor, Dr. Peters led this year’s Altervilles cohort […]
This article originally appeared on Yfile on January 21, 2019 _ A new publication that facilitates the extended engagement of outstanding work in the field of urban studies launched in December 2018 through the City Institute at York University (CITY). The Toronto Urban Journal is a reviewed publication that affords undergraduate students with a scholarly, […]
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 […]
