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.
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New Report on Transit Equity in Toronto
GTSWG coordinators Sean Hertel and Roger Keil, in collaboration with MES student Michael Collens, have just released a report on transit equity and justice in Toronto. This report, based on research funded by Ontario's regional transportation agency Metrolinx, that can be downloaded in its entirety below provides a survey of existing research and practice on […]
Yes, We Can Afford to Plan for Smarter Growth and Better Housing
"Critics of smart growth are not comparing apples to apples when it comes to housing costs. We need to consider the full cost of housing under different development scenarios." MCRI researchers Markus Moos, Pierre Filion, Roger Keil, and Alan Walks collaborate with University of Waterloo researchers Jeff Casello, Laura Johnson, and Maxwell Hartt to look […]
Suburban Revolution- in Italian
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.
Generationed City
MCRI researchers at "Housing the Future: Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Next Generation." The panel discussion held at the University of Waterloo's School of Planning, launches Markus Moos' new research project, Generationed City.
Roger Keil Awarded Tier 1 York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies
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.
Suburban Governance: A Global View
Edited by Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world’s suburban spaces and everyday life within them. With contributors from ten countries on five continents, […]
City and suburbs: six decades of unity and division (Toronto Star)
"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 […]
Star series looks at Toronto: The Divided City
"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 […]
Center for Metropolitan Studies Podcast: Interview with Roger Keil
Professor Roger Keil speaks to International Graduate College (IGK) Fellow Lisa Vollmer for the Center for Metropolitan Studies podcast series (November 2014).
