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CBC Metro Morning's Matt Galloway speaks with Professor Roger Keil about planning transit with social equity in mind. Listen to the interview here.

Metro article "What not to do when trying to be fair about transit" discusses a recently released report by York University’s Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group. The report, Switching Tracks – Towards Transit Equity in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area provides suggestions on how to integrate equity into planning future transit projects.

Suburban Revolution is an Italian publication influenced by the work of Roger Keil and Global Suburbanisms. Click here to read the online issue as well as Roger's feature interview.

Congratulations to MCRI Principal Investigator Roger Keil for being awarded a Tier 1 York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies. The award recognizes his research contributions to the field of urban and environmental research. The York Research Chairs program is envisioned as an internal twin for the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program.

"Many people who live in under-serviced communities feel trapped — by poor transit, and a lack of social mobility — the latter a relatively new phenomenon for Canada, where past generations of newcomers were able to “move up,” along with their children, says Roger Keil, a York University professor who studies global suburbanism. He cautions […]

"Roger Keil, a York University expert on suburbs, says those 905-belt communities are becoming “glamour zones,” with culture and opportunities akin to those in downtown Toronto. “So you’re going to make connections between one glamour zone of the city and another glamour zone, and we don’t have any municipal instruments to make life any better […]

Professor Roger Keil speaks to International Graduate College (IGK) Fellow Lisa Vollmer for the Center for Metropolitan Studies podcast series (November 2014).

Click here for Roger Keil's Italian interview about Global Suburbanisms on Forum PA.

Does the urban/suburban divide still exist in Toronto and how does it relate to the city's upcoming municiple election? Professor Roger Keil from York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies talks to Matt Galloway on the CBC's Metro Morning. Listen to the conversation here.

Sean Hertel and Roger Keil of the Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group are taking their show on the road, leading an ignite session at next month's OPPI Symposium. The annual meeting of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute gives Keil and Hertel a chance to discuss the group's efforts to break down stereotypes and build bridges, […]