Members of GenUrb, including Linda Peake, Principal Investigator; Elsa Koleth, Post-Doctoral Fellow; and Cristina Temenos, Comparative Research Team, attended the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF9) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (February 7-13, 2018). In addition to attended the Women’s Assembly and other panels, they presented at the following: Linda Peake, Panelist Women’s Visions and Practices for […]
Questions of Municipal Service Delivery in Asia: Why Do I Have Garbage, But Not Water? A Session From the Emerging Asian Urbanisms series Presented by the York Centre for Asian Research & Co-organized by the CITY Student Caucus Sarah Allen “Service Provisions in the Periurban Areas of Can Tho, Vietnam” & Faisal Haq Shaheen “Service […]
Please join us for a Series of Grant Writing Workshops, facilitated by Linda Peake, Director, the City Institute, in Preparation for the SSHRC Connections Grant May 1, 2018 Deadline Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate: disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the humanities and social […]
Time: 2-4pm Location: 749 Kaneff Tower Please join us for the City Institute’s Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group in the Winter 2018 Term The dates and discussion topics are as follows: January 5, 2018 – with Linda Peake An Introduction: how has the feminist urban field evolved? February 2, 2018 – with Gökbörü Tanyildiz Social […]
Dr. Penn Tsz Ting Ip This paper examines how new definitions of the “Chinese modern woman” affect the lives of rural-urban migrant women, with a focus on the way these women are interpellated as modern and fashionable. With a focus on the Qipulu Clothing Wholesale Market in Shanghai, also known as the “Cheap Road,” the […]
Interview with one of CITY’s visiting scholars, Nayrouz Hatoum. CBC Radio — Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the United States will now officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel. The U.S. president also said he would direct the State Department to begin the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. […]
The CityAge Toronto Conference (https://toronto.cityage.org/home), co-sponsored by York University, explored how the technology boom, population boom and investments in infrastructure can help build cities that work and contribute to an inclusive economy. The conference was held on November 22nd and the morning of November 23rd. Speakers included York University’s President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton and […]
Last June Volume, a leading magazine on architecture and design, published an article on the GoogleUrbanism project. Conceived at a renowned design institute in Moscow, the project charts a plausible urban future based on cities acting as important sites for “data extractivism” – the conversion of data harvested from individuals into artificial intelligence technologies, allowing companies such […]
On November 16th and 17th, the Waterloo-York Career Development Workshop in Urban Studies and Geography was held at the University of Waterloo. For the 35 PhD and Post-Doc participants, this two-day event featured panel discussions on a variety of topics from work-life balance, to academic applications and publications, and careers beyond academia. The intimate nature […]
Former Mayor of Toronto and environmental leader will advance the fight against climate change in North American cities New York City, USA (04 October, 2017) – David Miller, former mayor of Toronto and celebrated climate campaigner, will join C40 Cities in the role of North America Regional Director and C40 Ambassador for Inclusive Climate Action. Miller […]