Principal Investigator Roger Keil and Project Coordinator Lucy Lynch summarize a decade of suburban research under the Global Suburbanisms project and what to expect next in The Conversation. Read more here.
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Suburban change is transforming city life around the world
Principal Investigator Roger Keil and Project Coordinator Lucy Lynch summarize a decade of suburban research under the Global Suburbanisms project and what to expect next in The Conversation: The Global Suburbanisms research initiative has confirmed the idea that critical urban research must make an effort to contribute to the analysis of the production of, and […]
Suburban Planet on the Urban Political Podcast
Roger Keil's new book Suburban Planet was the subject of two episodes of the Urban Political Podcast, hosted by Ross Beveridge (Urban Studies Department of the University of Glasgow) and Markus Kip (the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin). Take Your Eyes Off the City Center! Interview with […]
Defining Suburbs: How Definitions Shape the Suburban Landscape
A new report from the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University looks at how definitions shape how we study and think about the suburbs. "Recent calls for a deeper understanding of suburban space challenge existing definitions and, at a minimum, demand considering them more broadly. Roger Keil and his colleagues have been at […]
Experiential education takes planning students abroad and it’s a boot camp for the brain
“To be a good planner, you must have your feet solidly on the ground; it needs your engagement with the everyday life in cities,” said Lehrer. “But it also requires the experience of other places so that you can come back with new insights and be better at what you are doing.” The Critical Urban […]
Aging in Suburbia Podcast
SSHRC postdoctoral fellow Samantha Biglieri speaks with Upstream Radio's Ralph Benmergui on "Aging in Suburbia."
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 […]
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.
