Journalist Andrew Clark references Switching Tracks report authored by Sean Hertel, Roger Keil, and Michael Collens in his Globe and Mail piece "Lessons learned from the King Street Transit Pilot project." Read his article here.
Dissemination
Article: Insights from GTSWG Mayors Panel
Post City Magazines' columnist David Fleischer writes about the GTA's common economic interests with insights from The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group's (GTSWG) Mayors Panel that took place as part of the After Suburbia Conference at York University on Friday October 20. Read the full article "How Amazon brought the GTA together" here.
How transit hubs can spur dense development
Roger Keil provides insight into transit hubs in the Globe and Mail article, "How transit hubs can spur dense development." “We need to build out these hubs as more than just classical bedroom communities, with some bike paths and a yoga studio attached. That’s not going to cut it,” says Roger Keil, York University research […]
Forget downtowns and suburbs: the 'in-between cities' are where it's at
Jim Brown from CBC radio's 180 talks to MCRI principal investigator, Roger Keil, about the "in-between city." Click here to listen to the broadcast.
MCRI researcher in the media
MCRI researcher Roger Keil has been quoted in two recent articles on the suburbs: Ahmed-Ullah, Noreen. (June 3, 2016). "How Brampton, a town in suburban Ontario, was dubbed a ghetto." The Globe and Mail. To view article click here. “It’s an interesting case because you have this clustering and clumping of particular people through market […]
New Publications by MCRI Researchers
Per Gunnar Roe. (2015). "The Construction of a Suburb: Ideology, Architecture and Everyday Culture in Skjettenbyen." Built Environment. Vol. 41, N0. 4, 538-549 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/alex/benv/2015/00000041/00000004/art00008 Abstract: Countering both sprawling suburbia and suburban high-rise estates, planners and architects in the early 1970s developed other ways of making more human friendly, denser and participatory dwelling areas outside cities. Skjettenbyen […]
Istanbul's Suburban Dream Is Fueled by Debt
York University PhD student Murat Ucoglu's writes about his research on Istanbul in CityLab. His article, "Istanbul's Suburban Dream Is Fueled by Debt" can be accessed by clicking here.
MCRI research featured in "Inside Hanoi's Gated Communities"
MCRI researcher Lisa Drummond and a former postdoctoral fellow with the MCRI, Danielle Labbe, are quoted in the Guardian's "Inside Hanoi's gated communities: elite enclaves where even the air is cleaner." Lisa Drummond, an urban studies professor at York University in Toronto, has been studying Hanoi for decades. She says a “chasm has begun to […]
CBC The Current Interview: Ute Lehrer on Privately Owned Publicly-Accessible Spaces (POPS)
MCRI researcher Ute Lehrer speaks to Anna Maria Tremonti on CBC radio's The Current about the exclusive nature of privately owned publicly-accessible spaces (POPS). Listen to the interview here.
Mythical North American suburbs- Environment & Planning A
A special issue of Environment & Planning A, volume 47 (2015) is now in print with articles on San Francisco, Toronto, Miami, and the Piedmont urban region. North American suburbia in flux Guest Editorial- Jan Nijman The strange case of the Bay Area Richard Walker, Alex Schafran Using Toronto to explore three suburban stereotypes, and […]
