We are sorry to cancel the event for "Urbanizing the regions. Master planned transformations and the change of urban shapes" with Professor Marco Facchinetti (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico di Milano, Italy).
Events
Urbanism, Public Space and the Condominium
Inhabited Futures/ Constructed Pasts The international graduate PhD program “The World in the City,” run by a consortium of universities from Berlin, New York, and Toronto, is having its annual meeting in Toronto November 19-21, 2015. The topic of the meeting […]
The Global Suburban Infrastructure Workshop
School of Planning, University of Waterloo, June 14-16, 2015 As the world population is becoming increasingly urban, most of the growth is happening in suburbs. It is thus there that infrastructure stress is most acute, would it be because of a lag of infrastructure development relative to population and growth, neglect of suburban populations relative […]
International Forum on Global Suburbanism, May 9-11, 2015
Fudan University, Shanghai, China As a rapidly growing city, Shanghai is exposed to significant challenges with regard to social, economic, environmental, and cultural planning. This forum analyses suburbanization in Shanghai as well as other regions in China from various aspects including land, governance, and infrastructure. Organized by Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) on Global Suburbanisms, […]
Upcoming panel- Housing the Future: Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Next Generation
MCRI researcher Markus Moos launches his new project, "Generationed City" with a panel discussion Housing the Future: Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Next Generation. Fellow MCRI researchers Pierre Filion, Roger Keil, and Alan Walks will weigh in on the issue. January 29, 2015 at the University of Waterloo School of Planning. 1pm-2:30pm.
CanU6 National Summit- Sept 18-20
CITY institute Director Linda Peake and colleagues Roger Keil (Faculty of Environmental Studies) and Sean Hertel will be presenting at the Council for Canadian Urbanism (CanU) 6th annual National Summit. The summit gathers Canada's top leaders in urbanism. Entitled "Cities at the Edge - Urbanizing Suburbia in the Regional City", the event will explore trends, […]
NRU writes about The Elusive Search for Good Density
The Feb. 12 GTA edition of Novae Res Urbis covers the panel, presented with the Canadian Urban Institute, in which members of the Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group -- including Roger Keil, Sean Hertel, Ian Chodikoff, Antonio Gomez-Palacio, Sonny Rai, Glenn Miller and Jane Wedlock -- discussed the need to rethink density and our suburbs. […]
UPCOMING CONFERENCE: A Suburban Revolution? September, 2013 - Toronto.
The CITY Institute is plesased to announce an upcoming, international, interdisciplinary conference on Global Suburbanisms. The conference marks the midterm of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). This event will be presented in collaboration with the […]
SUBURBSTALK - April 4th
On Thursday April 4, the CITY Institute presents the next in its series of SUBURBSTALKS. Anna Kramer (University of Waterloo) and Christian Mettke (Darmstadt University of Technology) will present “The death and life of 'transit city': Searching for sustainable transportation in Toronto's suburbs." Roger Keil and Sara Macdonald (York University) will discuss “Boundaries, metabolisms, landscape: […]
CITY Institute and FES host talk on Places to Grow on Jan. 22
The CITY Institute and Faculty of Environmental Studies welcome Michael Logan and Norah Forrest, from the Ontario Growth Secretariat, to York University for a talk on the province's Growth Plan for the Golden Horseshoe and beyond. This talk will be held on Tuesday, January 22nd from 1:00pm - 2:30 pm in HNES 142. Everyone is […]
