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Using Toronto to explore three suburban stereotypes, and vice versa
Is Toronto a suburban metropolis? Does Toronto redefine the suburban nation? Richard Harris asks the difficult questions in this new paper and provides wide reaching and important answers. Click here to read his paper. "Urbanists share and reproduce three stereotypes about North American suburbs. First, many invoke a clichéd ideal: the desire to enjoy quiet […]
MCRI Research Questions the Urban/Suburban Divide
Tridel, Hullmark and Kirkor Architects/ Wikimedia Commons Are the suburbs becoming more like cities? Are the cities being suburbanized? Research by MCRI co-investigator Professor Markus Moos has recently been cited by Richard Florida in a widely noted article called, "The Fading Distinction Between City and Suburb" in The Atlantic CityLab online magazine. "Most of us […]
Hiring Research Administrator at CITY
Position Title: Research Administrator Department: The City Institute at York University (CITY) Term of Employment: Contract- one year, with a possibility of renewal Band Level / Rate of Pay: $18.55/hour Hours of Work: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, 24 hours per week, 4 days per week Reports to: HR Business Partner, Office of the Vice President […]
Roger Keil Speaks to Metro Morning about the Urban/Suburban Divide
Does the urban/suburban divide still exist in Toronto and how does it relate to the city's upcoming municiple election? Professor Roger Keil from York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies talks to Matt Galloway on the CBC's Metro Morning. Listen to the conversation here.
Book Review:
International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World edited by Nicholas A. Phelps and Fulong Wu Suburban Constellations edited by Roger Keil Alex Schafran reviews two books edited by MCRI researchers in the International Journal for Urban and Regional Research. Read the review here. "One way of thinking about the contemporary moment is that the goal […]
Suburban Working Group Ignites the OPPI Symposium
Sean Hertel and Roger Keil of the Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group are taking their show on the road, leading an ignite session at next month's OPPI Symposium. The annual meeting of the Ontario Professional Planners Institute gives Keil and Hertel a chance to discuss the group's efforts to break down stereotypes and build bridges, […]
Two new articles explore suburbanism in Africa
The journal African Studies includes two new articles by researchers with the Global Suburbanism's project's Africa cluster. Chloe´ Buire's "The Dream and the Ordinary: An Ethnographic Investigation of Suburbanisation in Luanda" looks at how the social order of Angola's capital is reproduced as "individual dreams of home ownership meet top-down attempts to discipline urban behaviours." "New African […]
Article on the changing face of suburbia features Roger Keil & Sean Hertel
"Skyscrapers in the Subdivision," a new article on NextCity compares the changes confronting suburbia in Montgomery Country, Maryland and York Region, Ontario. MCRI primary investigator Roger Keil and Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group co-ordinator Sean Hertel are featured in author Amanda Kolson-Hurley's tour of the fast-growing, diverse suburb of Markham. It’s tempting to view Keil […]
Danielle Labbé's new book looks at the changing outskirts of Hanoi
Danielle Labbé, formerly a post-doctoral fellow with the Global Suburbanisms project (and contributor to Suburban Constellations) has just published "Land Politics and Livelihoods on the Margins of Hanoi, 1920-2010," exploring how a rural village was absorbed into the city. From the publisher: Danielle Labbé considers a century of change to the settlement of Hòa Mục -- a […]
