Student Publications & Media

(* indicates student participation)

2019

*Haas, O. (2019). Suburbanisms of Ethnocracy: Building New Peripheries in Israel/Palestine. In K.M. Güney, R. Keil & M. Üçoğlu (eds.) Massive Suburbanization: (Re)building the Global Periphery, One Large Scale Housing Project at a Time.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 270-286.

*Pennino, G. (2019). Planning for Intensifying Suburbs: Analyzing Markham and Vaughan. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

2018

*Gatien, A. (2018). Overcoming Barriers to a Shift to Sustainable Transport. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

2017

*Fok, J. (2017). Transit Equity: Retrofitting Inner Suburban Corridors. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

*Jankowski, P. (2017). How do cities plan for Transportation Equity? A comparative study of Warsaw and Toronto. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

*Nortey, J. (2017). Planning Towards Prosperity: How Transit Affects the Educational Outcomes of University Students. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

*Wood, N. (2017). Privately Owned Public Spaces. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

2016

*Yazdani, S. (2016). People, Place and Neighborhood (Lawrence Heights). MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

*Collens, M. (2016). Transit Equity Planning in the GTHA. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

*Lynch, L. (2016). Beyond the greenbelt. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

*Lugar, J. (2016). The Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt and civil society. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Chellew, C. (2016). Contestations/ Desire Lines: An exploration of urban land, property and the right to the city. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Collens, M. & Hertel, S. (2016). Public Transit and the Public Good. Ontario Planning Journal. 31 (4).

Hertel, S., Keil, R., & *Collens, M. (2016). Next Stop: Equity – Routes to Fairer Transit Access in the Grater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

2015

*Branston, S. (2015). Planning, Politics and the Media in Detroit. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

Gururani, S. & *Kose, B. (2015). Shifting Terrains: Questions of Governance in India’s Cities and their Peripheries. In R. Keil & P. Hamel (eds.) Global Suburban Governance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Hertel, S., Keil, R., & *Collens, M. (2015). Switching Tracks - Towards Transit Equity in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.

Phelps, N. & *Vento, A.T. (2015). The governance of European suburbs. In R. Keil & P. Hamel (eds.) Global Suburban Governance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

*Brewer, K. & Grant, J.L. (2015). Seeking density and mix in the suburbs: challenges for mid-sized cities. Planning Theory and Practice. 16 (2).

*Shiell, R. (2015). Suburban Condominium Development, Private Interests, and the Role of Image Production in the Reorientation of Urban Form in the GTA. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

2014

*Fleischer, D. (2014). Waking Dream: Cornell, Langstaff Gateway and Planning New Suburbs in the GTA. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

2013

*Coates, V. (2013). How real estate agents frame and market suburbia in Hamilton, Ontario. BA Paper, McMaster University.

*Brewer, K. (2013). Densifying Dartmouth? Emerging Land Use Patterns in Suburban Development. School of Planning, Dalhousie University.

*Nurwisah, I. (May 10, 2013). On Transit, Toronto Politicians are Gridlocked. Huffington Post

*Nurwisah, I. (2013). Civil Society in Planning Sustainable Communities. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*McDonough, E. (2013). Madrid-Barajas Airport & the Geography of Globalization. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Jamil, S. (2013). From Theory to Practice: Analyzing the New Urbanist Aspirations and the Development Reality. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Bedford, W. (2013). Selling ‘Scousescraper’ City: Geographical Networks of Power, Liverpool Waters and the Competitive City Project on Liverpool Waterfront. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Law, C.N. (2013). Suburban Identity and its Effect on Sustainability and Transportation Policy in the City of Markham. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Brunelle, D. (2013). Land as Strategy: Urban Developlment and Labour-Community Advocacy in Toronto and Los Angeles. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Kilbourne, K. (2013). Planning for the ‘Motor City’ in a post-industrial era: A comparison of Urban Revitalization and Economic Restructuring in Oshawa, Ontario and Dearborn, Michigan. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

2012

Moos, M. & *Kramer, A. (2012). Atlas Of Suburbanisms. http://env-blogs.uwaterloo.ca/atlas

*Ekers, M., Hamel, P. &  Keil, R. (2012): Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance. Regional Studies. 46 (3): 405-422.

*Shen, J. &  Wu, F. (2012). The development of master-planned communities in Chinese suburbs: A case study of Shanghai’s Thames Town. Urban Geography. 33 (2): 183-203.

*Balasubramaniam, N. (2012). The Making of a Multi-Ethnic Ethnoburb: A Case Study of Markham, Ontario.

*Schaffer, N. (2012). Marseille? A Political Economy of a Capital of Culture - 2012. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Hertel, S. (2012). Suburbanism as a way of life: seeing beyond built form. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

Williams, K. (2012). Governance and Planning for Growth Management and Housing in the Greater Toronto Area. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

*Oliveira, A. (2012). Suburbia in Transition: An Analysis of the Urban Transformation of Mississauga's City Centre. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.

2011

*Potter, G. & *Neubauer, J. (August 30 , 2011). York University MES students explore shrinking cities in Germany. YFile.

*Dunn, A. (2011). Priority Housing? Finding affordable solutions in Toronto’s Inner Suburbs. MES Major Paper. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University. Toronto.