Student Presentations

(* indicates student participation)

2019

*Macdonald, S., Monstadt, J. & Friendly, A. (2019, June 5-7). Re-imagining the governance and planning of greenbelts in Southern Ontario (Canada) and Frankfurt (Germany). Regional Studies Association Annual Conference. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

2018

*Macdonald, S. (2018, April 10). Rethinking Greenbelts in a Post-suburban World: A Comparative Analysis of the Ontario Greenbelt and GrünGürtel Frankfurt. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA.

*Gatien, A. (2018, April 10). LRT, BRT, and the Contradictions of Mass Transit in Suburban Canada and the United State. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA.

*Macdonald, S. (2018, April 6). ‘It’s Not Easy to Be Green’: The Impact of Housing and Infrastructure Development on the GrünGürtel Frankfurt, Urban Affairs Assocation Annual Meeting, Toronto.

*Khatam, A. (2018, April 6). Suburban Development in the Age of Hyper Commodification of Housing: A View from Iran. Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Toronto.

2017

*Khatam, A. & *Haas, O. (2017, October 19-21 ). Local Political Economy of Global Suburbanisms: Housing and Politics in the Middle East. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Castriota, R. (2017, October 19-21 ). Reassessing the Blind Field: Cityism and Industrialism at the Periphery of Capitalism. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Macdonald, S. (2017, October 19-21). The Contested Nature of the Boundaries of the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region's Greenbelt: Thresholds of Opportunities or Hard Lines on a Map? MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Zhao, Y. (2017, October 19-21). Renew the Urban Vocabulary from China: Suburbanization, Rural-Urban Continuum and the Spatiality of Urban Process. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Gatien, A. (2017, October 19-21). Towards a Political Economy of Transit in the GTA. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Woodside, J. (2017, October 19-21). Zoning with Home-Based Production: Exploring Toronto's RAC Zone and Suburban Change. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Allen, S. (2017, October 19-21). Vietnamese Cities: Finding the Urban in the Periurban. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Chatterjee, S. (2017, October 19-21). Urban Water Networks: Shaping the Future in the Metropolitan Periphery. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*May, L. (2017, October 19-21). Street-Making is Place-Making: A Political-Economic Perspective on Suburbanization in Antwerp, Belgium (First Half of the 20th Century). MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

Perrott, K. (2017, October 19-21). Post-Suburban Aesthetic Governmentality: Planning and Packaging Suburban Intensification as "World Class" and "Urban." MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Haas, O. (2017, October 19-21). Suburbanisms of Ethnocracy: Building New Peripheris in Israel/Palestine. MCRI Final Conference, After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery. York University, Toronto.

*Adamson, R., *Ahmed, N., *Chan, J., *Charles, C., *Closs, S., *Gu, Y., *Heath, F., *Jankowski, P., *Moore, V., *Moustaqim- Barrette, A. & *Schwartz, O. (2017, February 2). Variations on Urbanism and Planning: Johannesburg perceived from a Toronto Perspective. City Institute Seminar Series, York University, Toronto.

*Üçoğlu, M. (2017, October 19-21). Eroding the Ecology of Istanbul’s Periphery. MCRI Final Conference After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery, York University, Toronto.

*Üçoğlu, M. (2017, October 19-21). The Political Economy of Housing in Istanbul: Financialization and Populism. MCRI Final Conference After Suburbia: Extended Urbanization & Life on the Planet’s Periphery, York University, Toronto.

2016

*Lynch, L. (2016, October 7). Escape the urban for the rurban: New tourist developments in Toronto’s rural periphery. Planning the Rurban International Workshop, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, United Kingdom.

*Lynch, L. (2016, February 28-March 1). Beyond the greenbelt. MCRI Workshop on Blue-Green Boundaries in a Suburbanizing World Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte.

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.

2015

*Khatam, A. (2015, December 10-12). Iranian paradox: Between state-led suburbanism and self-built housing. MCRI Workshop Spotlight on Istanbul: Building and Rebuilding the Periphery, Kultur and Mimar Sinan Universities, Istanbul, Turkey.

*Haas, O. (2015, December 10-12). Suburbanisms of ethnocracy: Building new peripheries in Israel. MCRI Workshop Spotlight on Istanbul: Building and Rebuilding the Periphery, Kultur and Mimar Sinan Universities, Istanbul, Turkey.

*Chellew, C., *Dionigi, A., *Fok, J., *Lan Chung Yang, P., *Volpert, N., *Zhao, C. (2015, October 2). Shanghai Urbanism: Reflections from the Outside In. The City Institute Seminar Series, York University, Toronto.

*Chellew, C., *Ho, V., *Zhao, C. (2015, May 10). Canadian and Chinese Urbanism in Comparison: Some Basic Ideas. International Forum on Global Suburbanisms, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

*Üçoğlu, M. (2015, December 10-12). Eroding the ecology of Istanbul’s periphery: Crony capitalism and late neoliberalism. MCRI Workshop Spotlight on Istanbul: Building and Rebuilding the Periphery, Kultur and Mimar Sinan Universities. Istanbul, Turkey.

*Üçoğlu, M. (2015, April 21-25). The Violation of Istanbul's Northern Greenbelt Boundaries for new Urban Development Projects: The Case of Kemerburgaz-Gokturk Area. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago.

*Üçoğlu, M. & Güney K.M. (2015, October 26-27). City with no boundary: Suburbanization as a mode of wealth accumulation in Istanbul. MCRI Workshop on Suburban Governance in an Era of Globalizing Urbanization, Université de Montréal, Montréal.

2013

Lehrer, U. & *Tchoukaleyska, R.  (2013, Sept. 28). Montpellier's Suburban Face-Off: High-Rise Social Housing in mosson Meets the Village Idyll of Juvignac. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*McDonough, E.  (2013, Sept. 28). Madrid-Barajas Airport and the Urban Geography of Globalization. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Peterson, K. (2013, Sept. 28). Deceptive Engagements: New Urbanism and Gentrification in Calgary's Established Suburbs. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Leffers, D. & Wekerle, G.  (2013, Sept. 28). Stories About Developers: An Interpretive Institutional Account of Land Use Change and Conflict in the Toronto Region. Presentation at A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Calbert E. L. (2013, Sept. 28). Suburban Transformations: Some Reflections on a Financialized Urbanization. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Rubin, M.  (2013, Sept. 28). Understanding Access to Land: Mapping the Players and the Game in Suburbs and Peripheries in Johannesburg. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Lu, T.  (2013, Sept. 27). The Development of Suburban Residential Enclaves in China: The Case Study of Wenzhou. Presentation at A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Bolis, G. (2013, Sept. 27). Sidewalks and Public Safety: Pedestrian Mobility in Suburban Mexico City.  A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

Mabin, A., *Rubin, M. & Todes, A.  (2013, Sept. 27). What a Difference a Metro Makes! Or Did It? Suburanization and Local Government Consolidation in Johannesburg.  A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Gajendran, V.  (2013, Sept. 27). Reconfiguration of Peri-Urban Space and its Social Implications. Presentation at A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Idiculla, M. (2013, Sept. 27). Bangalore's contesting Suburbanism. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

Andrew, C., *Franovic, A., *Xu, T.  (2013, Sept. 27). Public Transit and the Movement of New Immigrating Populations Into Suburban Areas in Ottawa: What would Equitable and Inclusive Public Policy Look Like? A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Kramer, A. (2013, Sept. 27). Post-Suburban Imaginaries: Possibilities for Extending Transit in Postwar Cities. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Buire, C. & Cardoso, R. (2013, Sept. 27). Between Centrality and Periphery: A Look into the New Angolan Suburbanisms. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Khatam, A. (2013, Sept. 27). Suburban Processes and Centrifugal Politics in the Decentralization in Tehran.  A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Brunelle, D. (2013, Sept. 27). Urban Development and Labour-Community Advocacy in Toronto and Los Angeles. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Dubey, S. (2013, Sept. 26). Un-mapping Villages: The Case of Khora Colony, National Capital Region, India. Presentation at A Suburban Revolution Conference,  York University, Toronto, ON.

*Krishnankutty, M. & Burte, H. (2013, Sept. 26). The Urban Suburb: The Mumbai Experience. A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Fiedler, R. (2013, Sept. 26). Constructions of Suburban Space: To Investigate or Presume?  A Suburban Revolution Conference, York University, Toronto, ON.

*Jamil, S., Ismail, Z., Saadia J., Sharma, P. & Côté, A. (2013, April 30). Transit Growing among the Vineyards: Lessons from Montpellier, France. Inside the Planners Studio Event. City of Toronto, City Hall Council Chambers. Toronto, ON.

*Jamil, S., Jones, G., & Nurzynski, P. (2013, February 1-3). A Metropole Growing Among the Vineyards: A Critical Analysis of Montpellier’s Development Strategies. Canadian Association of Planning Students Annual Conference, Montreal, QB.

2012

*Changizi, C. (2012, February 4-6). Lessons from Leipzig. Canadian Association of Planning Students Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC.

*Craswell, H. (2012, March 24).Exploring the concept of health in planning: A case study of suburban Halifax. Crossroads of Health Conference, Halifax, NS.

Moos, M., Mendez, P., *McGuire, L., Wyly, E., & *Walter-Joseph, R. (2012, February 24-28). Mapping the idealized Canadian post-War suburb onto today’s urban fabric. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New York City, NY.

Moos, M., Mendez, P., *McGuire, L., Wyly, E., *Walter-Joseph, R., Schafran, A., Fiedler, R. & Archer, J. (2012, February 28). Panel: Contemporary North American Suburbanisms: Concepts and Metrics II.  Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New York City, NY.

Peck, J., Wyly,  E. & *Siemiatycki, E. (2012, February 24-28). Vancouver’s Suburban Involution. Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New York City, NY.

2011

Heinrich, D., Nuissil, H. & *Berrios, E. (2011, June 30-July 3). Suburban Governance in Latin America. MCRI Workshop on Suburban Governance, Leipzig, Germany.

Keil, R., Moos, M., Nijman, J., Grant, J., Lehrer, U., *Ekers, M., Phelps, N. (2011, April 13-16). Global Suburbanisms: Conceptual Departures. Panel Discussion at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.

Mabin, A., *Butcher, S. & Bloch, R. (2011, July 8). Scope and dimensions of suburbanisation in African cities.  Annual Research Committee 21 Conference, Session 16.1: The Challenge of Global Suburbanisms, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Phelps, N. & *Vento, A.T. (2011, June 30- July 3). Suburban Governance in Western Europe. MCRI Workshop on Suburban Governance, Leipzig, Germany.