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Hey York Students! Share your travel story by filling out StudentMoveTO and YorkU's survey! Get it done before December 8, when the survey closes. Check out our website (www.studentmoveto.ca) for more details and watch out for an email linking you to the survey. StudentMoveTO is an initiative started by the four presidents of the four […]

Please join us for a SYMPOSIUM ON STUDENT TRANSPORTATION Monday, September 21, 2015 4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Registration at 3:30 p.m. Council Chamber, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West Getting here is standing in the way of being here. Together we can fix this. Join us on September 21st for an interactive symposium […]

MCRI researchers are featured in the most recent issue of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research: The Politics of Post-Suburban Densification in Canada and France Written by: Eric Charmes and Roger Keil Abstract This debate specifically focuses on densification as a particular dimension of (post-) suburbanization. In the introduction, we discuss densification, along with ‘compactness’ […]

Professor Ute Lehrer speaks to CTV news about the speed of development in the Port Lands area of Toronto. Watch the video clip here.

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 […]

"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 […]

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.

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]