It has been a busy year for the MCRI researchers: Julie-Anne Boudreau gave a presentation titled "Thinking Metropole: Comparative Reflexions" at the Think Metropole Workshop in Johannesburg on March 4, 2011. She also co-authored "Understanding the causes of urban fragmentation in Hanoi: The case of New Urban Zones" with Danielle Labbé, which has been accepted […]
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Roger Keil, Pierre Filion, Markus Moos to attend 2011 CPSA conference at Wilfrid Laurier University
Conference dates: May 16-May 18, 2011 Roger Keil will participate as a discussant in a roundtable on "The Author and his Critics" with author Warren Magnusson and discussants Zack Taylor and Andrew Sancton on May 18 from 3:15-4:45. Additional conference information. Program Abstracts
Roger Keil presents "A world of suburbs? Finding the heart of the urban century in the periphery"
Dr. Keil will give this presentation to members of the York Circle on Saturday, April 30 2011, as part of the twice-annual "Lunch & Lecture" series to highlight York research. "A World of Suburbs? Finding the Heart of the Urban Century in the Periphery" with York environmental studies Professor Roger Keil (right) will offer York […]
Sigrun Kabisch, Doug Young discuss shrinking cities, planning challenges with graduate students
Dr. Kabisch and Dr. Young presented on Leipzig's shrinking Grunau housing estate and the challenges of planning for decline and renewal in Toronto's inner suburbs with the students who will participate in the 2011 graduate summer school in Leipzig.
Roger Keil comments in Czek Position article about NFB's "Out My Window"
The article, by Martina Čermáková, features the depiction of Prague’s Jižní Město neighbourhood in "Out My Window". The documentary flows from a year-long research on communities living in high-rise developments, drawing heavily from a collaboration with researchers at Toronto's City Institute at York University who have teamed up with colleagues from 12 countries to investigate […]
Association of American Geographers Conference - Global Suburbanisms: Conceptual Deparatures
Global Suburbanisms researchers including Ute Lehrer, Deborah Cowen, Stefan Kipfer, Bryan Miller, Elvin Wyly, Doug Young, Per Roe, Markus Moos, Jan Nijman, Jill Grant, Michael Ekers, and Nick Phelps will participate in two panel sessions organized by Roger Keil at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle, Washington, on 13 April […]
Forthcoming book by McGee and de Castro- "Inclusion, Collaboration and Urban Governance"
"Inclusion, collaboration and urban governance: Challenges in metropolitan regions of Brazil and Canada" - Terry McGee (MCRI Advisory Board Member) & Erika de Castro Metropolitan governance in Brazil has not kept pace with the country's urbanization. Today, in Brazil's 26 metropolitan regions more than 20 million people live in informal settlements (favelas) where housing, infrastructure […]
Welcome the newest addition to the benchmarking group!
Pablo Mendez has been hired as a post-doctoral fellow. Pablo is in the final stages of completing a doctoral degree in Geography at the University of British Columbia. He has already begun working on the project but his formal role as post-doctoral fellow will commence this summer. Background: Pablo's dissertation research examines the informal housing […]
Roger Keil to give a talk on Global Suburbanism to Lambda Alpha International
On Wednsday, January 12, 2011, Roger Keil will give a talk to the Lambda Alpha International dinner meeting on "Global Suburbanism and the Challenge of 21st Century Urbanization". From the LAI: "Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small, that we can never get away from the sprawl!': Global Suburbanism and the Challenge of 21st […]
The MCRI is mentioned in Curb Magazine
The MCRI "Global Suburbanisms" project was mentioned in Curb Magazine (Volume 1, Issue 2, 2010). The article is by Rob Sheilds "Thinking like a Region: Place-based Policy" and on pages 4-5. This is a publication from the City-Region Studies Centre at the University of Alberta.
