Per Gunnar Røe co-edited the new book, Green Oslo:Visions, Planning and Discourse and also has a chapter in it entitled "Green Suburbanisms: Differentiating the Greenness of Suburbs". The book is now available from Ashgate.
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Global Suburbanisms makes the 2012 Disruption Index
Each year, Next City publishes its list of 77 people, places and ideas that have changed cities in its Disruption Index and in 2012 CITY Institute director Roger Keil made the cut. In their article the arbiters at Next City note that the major collaborative research initiative "is challenging the notion of cities and suburbs […]
Call for abstracts - RC21, Berlin 2013
The RC21 conference, taking place in Berlin this August, will focus on "Resourceful Cities." A call for abstracts has been issued with a deadline of Jan. 31. Final papers will be due in June. Visit here for more information
The meaning of suburban life: new research by Alan Walks
What is suburbanim as a way of life and how has that concept changed over the years? The latest edition of Urban Studies includes an article by Alan Walks, "Suburbanism as a Way of Life, Slight Return," that addresses these questions drawing on the work of Lefebrvre and others. Following is the article's abstract: Much attention […]
MCRI says goodbye to Sarah Khan
Sarah Khan will be ending her time with the MCRI as our Research Administrator on August 24, 2012. She has accepted a full time position outside of the university. We will miss her and wish her all the best with her future endeavours. As of August 27th, please send all inquires related to the MCRI “Global Suburbanisms […]
Two new publications from Fulong Wu
Fulong Wu and PhD student Yi Li have recently published two articles on the topic of regional governance in China. Both are available online. Li, Y., and Wu, F. (2012). Towards new regionalism? Case study of changing regional governance in the Yangtze River Delta. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, vol. 53(2), p.178-195. Li, Y. and Wu, F. (2012).The […]
Markus Moos and the Atlas of Suburbanisms featured on Connecticut Public Radio
July 24, 2012 - Markus Moos was recently on Connecticut Public Radio discussing the Atlas of Suburbanisms website. He was on the "Where We Live" program on a segment entitled "Suburbs 4.0". Listen to the broadcast.
MCRI Benchmarking team posts new research, "Estimating Canada's Suburban Population"
The MCRI benchmarking team just posted new research by David Gordon at Queen's University on the Altas of Suburbanisms webpage—his project estimates Canada's suburban population. Below is a link to the post: http://env-blogs.uwaterloo.ca/atlas/?p=4660
Atlas of Suburbanisms Website from the “Universal Benchmarking” sub-project launch featured in Atlantic Cities article.
The recent launch of the Atlas of Suburbanisms website from the “Universal Benchmarking” sub-project was featured in a June 4th article in the Atlantic Cities. An interview with MCRI researcher Markus Moos (Waterloo) was featured in this article. View the article.
"Governance of European Suburbs" Workshop led by Nick Phelps held at University College London
Nick Phelps of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL) organized a one day workshop on the May 14, 2012 to discuss the 'Governance of European suburbs'. The workshop took place in the Haldane Room UCL and forms part of the work of the Europe research cluster of the MCRI 'Global Suburbanisms' project. […]
