On Wednsday, January 12, 2011, Roger Keil will give a talk to the Lambda Alpha International dinner meeting on "Global Suburbanism and the Challenge of 21st Century Urbanization".

From the LAI:

"Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small, that we can never get away from the sprawl!': Global Suburbanism and the Challenge of 21st Century Urbanization"

Speaker: Roger Keil

 

Roger Keil (Dr.Phil, Frankfurt) is the Director of the City Institute at York University and Professor at the the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Among his publications are In-Between Infrastructure:Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability (ed. with Douglas Young and Patricia Burke Wood), Praxis(e) Press, 2010; Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism (with J.A. Boudreau and D. Young, UTP: 2009); Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale (ed. with Rianne Mahon, UBC Press: 2009), Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City (ed. with S.H.Ali, Wiley-Blackwell 2008); and The Global Cities Reader (ed. with N. Brenner, Routledge 2006).

 

Keil's current research is on global suburbanism, infrastructure in the Zwischenstadt, on cities and infectious disease, and regional governance. Keil is the co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) and a co-founder of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA).