Conference and Workshop Presentations
2017
Shields, R. (2017, May 18). Suburbs for Settlers: Reconciling layers of Indigenous land rights affect and trauma in the postcolonial landscape of Canadian suburbia. University of Washington Tacoma Urban Studies Annual Lecture, Seattle, Washington.
Shields, R. (2017, April 26). Suburbs for Settlers. Lecture presented at the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
2016
Basten, L. (2016, October 7). Ruhrbanization and its discontent. Paper presented at Planning the Urban International Workshop, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
Lynch, L. (2016, October 7). Escape the urban for the rurban: new tourist developments in Toronto’s rural periphery. Paper presented at Planning the Rurban International Workshop, UCL, London, United Kingdom.
Shields, R. (2016, 8 June). Seminar in Urban Design. Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
Macdonald, S. (2016, February 29). What role does the Ontario Greenbelt play in the remaking of suburban boundaries? Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Almeida, D. (2016, February 28 – March 1). Urban agroecology as part of planning strategies to connect people, the green and the blue in the territorial restructuring of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte. Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Basten, L. (2016, February 28 –March 1). From urban containment to suburban boundary zones? Greenbelts, greenbelt planning and its governance in the Ruhr area of Germany. Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Castriota, R. (2016, February 28 – March 1). On extended and planetary urbanization. Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Gururani, S. (2016, February 29). Political ecologies of peri-urban land: Uncommoning, planning, and plundering in India. Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Hae, L. (2016, February 28 – March 1). The construction state unbounded: Greenbelt deregulation and geographical expansion of development capital in the Seoul Metropolitan Region. Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Hertel, S. (2016, February 28 – March 1). Is it easy being green? Implementation of the Toronto region's greenbelt. Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Monte-Mor, R. & Costa, H. (2016, February 28 – March 1). Metropolitan planning in Belo Horizonte. Keynote for Blue-Green Boundaries in a Surbanizing World Workshop, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Macdonald, S. (2016, February 12). Conceptualizing the Greenbelt: Housing, Infrastructure and a Green Consciousness in Ontario and Frankfurt, Guest lecture for ENVS 2200 Foundations of urban and regional environments: Analysis, Planning and Design, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
Keil, R. & Lugar, J. (2016, January 23). Greenbelt politics: Creating a space for democracy in the soft space of suburbanization. Democratizing the Green City, The Urban Democracy Lab, Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre, Gallatin School of Individual Study, New York University, New York City, New York.
2015
Macdonald, S. (2015, June 16). Greenfrastructure: The Ontario Greenbelt as urban boundary. The Global Suburban Infrastructure Workshop, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario.
Gururani, S. (2015, April 25). Making Property: Claiming Nature/Land in India’s Urban Peripheries. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Hae, L. (2015, April 25). The ‘Construction State’ Unbounded: Greenbelt Deregulation and Geographical Expansion of Development Capital in the Seoul Metropolitan Region, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Keil, R. (2015, April 25). Boundaries, Greenbelts and Suburbanization 1. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Keil, R. & Macdonald, S. (2015, April 25). Boundaries to suburbanization, thresholds of possibility? The emerging suburban political ecology of the Emscher Park, GruenGuertel Frankfurt and the Ontario Greenbelt. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Lukas, M. & Fragkou, M. (2015, April 25). Liquid boundaries: post-suburbanization and water conflicts in Santiago de Chile. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Newman, L. (2015, April 25) Cowboys and corn mazes: Farm stores and the rural imaginative on the urban fringe. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Perrone, C. & Paba, G. (2015, April 25). Outside? What’s outside? Postmetropolitan and suburban tendencies in large Italian regional cities. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Powell, L., Newman, L. & Wittman, H. (2015, April 25). Comparing the Agriburban Landscapes of Richmond, British Columbia, and Washington County, Oregon. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Ucoglu, M. (2015, April 25). The Violation of Istanbul’s Northern Greenbelt Boundaries for new Urban Development Projects: The Case of Kemerburgaz-Göktürk Area. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
Macdonald, S. (2015, February 13). Looking back, planning forward: The 10th anniversary of the Ontario Greenbelt. Guest lecture of ENVS 2200, Foundations of urban and regional environments: Analysis, Planning and Design, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
2014
Keil, R. (2014, September 13). Green Boundaries - Grey Transitions: The Political Ecology of Suburbanization, Houk Memorial Public Lecture in Geography, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
2013
Gururani, S. (2013, May 17-19). New Fictions of Property and Consensus: Claiming Nature/Land in India’s Urban Peripheries. Grabbing ‘Green’: Questioning the Green Economy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Keil, R. (2013, June 1). The Urban Political Ecology of Ontario’s Greenbelt, Keynote, Empire, City, Nature, 2nd Annual Conference International Graduate Research Program, Berlin–New York–Toronto: The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, Toronto, Ontario.
Macdonald, S. & Keil, R. (2013, April 10). Rethinking Urban Political Ecology from the Outside In: Greenbelts and Boundaries in the Post-Suburban City. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.
Macdonald, S. & Keil, R. (2013, April 4). Boundaries, metabolisms, landscape: Post-suburban political ecologies in Toronto. SUBURBSTALKS series, Room 280A York Lanes, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
2012
Keil, R. & Macdonald, S. (2012, December 14). An Urban Perspective on the Greenbelt. Presentation to the Ontario Greenbelt Council, Toronto, Ontario.
Keil, R. (2012, February 6). The Ontario Greenbelt: Rescaling the Urban Political Ecology of the Golden Horseshoe. Brock University Political Economy Speaker Series, St. Catherines, Ontario.
