What is the current state of suburban scholarship? Lorenzo De Vidovich, former Global Suburbanisms visiting scholar and PhD student at the Politecnico di Milano explores this in his recent article "Suburban studies: State of the field and unsolved knots" now available online in Geography Compass. Click here to access the full article.
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Two New Titles added to Global Suburbanisms Book Series
We live in a world of expanding city regions. The Toronto and Waterloo region are prime examples of a global dynamic that involves tendencies of both intensified and sprawling urban form. As inner cities have once more become attractive to creative economic activities and residential use, the expansion of the suburban footprint into the region […]
Global Suburbanisms: Concepts, Cases and Connections in Extended Urbanization
Urban policy and politics blog The New Spirit features the Global Suburbanisms book series and other publications that have come out of the MCRI. The book series, edited by Roger Keil and published by the University of Toronto Press, is the first major scholarly series to systematically examine worldwide developments in suburbanization and suburbanisms […]
Special Issue: Planetary Urbanization
A special issue on planetary urbanization featuring MCRI affiliated researchers is now available in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Drawing on discussions between urban scholars at the City Institute at York University and the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, the special issues features papers from the Planetary Urbanization Workshop held […]
Lorenzo De Vidovich "Transit networks are key to smart growth in suburbs"
Lorenzo De Vidovich, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning, Design and Policy at the Politecnico di Milano and visiting scholar at the City Institute at York University recently wrote an article in The Conversation about the Italian experience of transit infrastructure and smart growth in the suburbs. "Italy’s big cities have historically faced a mismatch […]
New Book Considers the City from its Periphery
Roger Keils' new book, Suburban Planet: Making the World Urban from the Outside In was recently featured in a yFile article: "Part of an Urban Futures Series produced by the publisher, Suburban Planet is a compelling response to 20th-century Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre’s demand not to give up urban theory as the […]
Towards/After Suburbia: FES Best of 2017
Thank you to The Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University for including our Towards Suburbia seminar series and After Suburbia final conference on their Best of FES 2017 list. Click here to see the top ten that made the list.
Article: Transit Lessons Learned
Journalist Andrew Clark references Switching Tracks report authored by Sean Hertel, Roger Keil, and Michael Collens in his Globe and Mail piece "Lessons learned from the King Street Transit Pilot project." Read his article here.
Article: Insights from GTSWG Mayors Panel
Post City Magazines' columnist David Fleischer writes about the GTA's common economic interests with insights from The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group's (GTSWG) Mayors Panel that took place as part of the After Suburbia Conference at York University on Friday October 20. Read the full article "How Amazon brought the GTA together" here.
Research Assistant Job Posting - MCRI Global Suburbs Tower Renewal
Timeframe: Fall 2017@ 10 hrs/wk. Possibility of extension for Winter 2018 and Summer 2018 term. Title: MCRI “Global Suburbanisms” – Research Assistant Salary: $5000/term Job Description: This research assistantship is linked to the MCRI Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century research project (www.yorku.ca/suburbs). The MCRI Global Suburbanisms project is a multi-year […]
