Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) seeks to appoint a 12 month full-time post-doctoral fellow to work on a project at the intersection of climate change, housing, and poverty reduction in Ontario and British Columbia. This represents an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively between academic, […]
Please Confirm Your Attendance Using the Form Below:
Visit the official Website: HighRiseLiving.ca Overview High-rise buildings have long been a significant form in urban development. But this form of living comes with its own challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic of the last two years has magnified some of the problems for life in close proximity. Recent events disrupted and altered the everyday […]
GRADUATE STUDENT EXCHANGE 2024-2025 The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, in cooperation with the City Institute and the Graduate Program in Geography, offer one or two study abroad opportunities to spend one or two semesters during the 2024-5 academic year at the Department of Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). While there is no […]
The City Institute at York University is excited to host Thomas van Laake, a Manchester University doctoral researcher with many years of professional and research experience in planning and research of cycling infrastructure in Mexico City, Bogota, Manchester and Toronto. Thomas will present a comparative analysis of equity-seeking bicycle planning in Mexico City and Toronto. […]
Dear friends, supporters, and members of the City Institute, My time at the City Institute is rapidly coming to an end, and it is a bittersweet moment. As much as my role in these last nine years has been to pursue research monies it has also provided me an incredible opportunity to pursue ideas and […]
The outstanding achievements of 70 York University faculty members were recognized on April 12 during the 2023 Research Awards Celebration. The annual event, hosted by the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, celebrates the research contributions from York’s community of changemakers over the last year.“Universities continue to play an oversized role in undertaking the […]
We would like to congratulate Dr. Linda Peake for receiving the 2023 AAG Lifetime Achievement Honors award for her scholarly contributions to feminist and urban geographies and for a career dedicated to extending equity, diversity, and inclusion at her institution (York University, Canada) and across the discipline of geography. Linda Peake’s four decades of scholarship […]
