By Roger Keil We are in the middle of a suburban revolution. It comes in two waves. The majority of migrants from distant shores or the domestic countryside end up on the edges of the metropolis. Existing suburbs that already contain most of the people and economic activities in many urban regions are subject to […]
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Suburban politics in the 'regional city'
By Roger Keil I have argued in an op-ed with Matt Kellway in the Toronto Star that the recent budget by the Conservative government of Canada has done little for the needs of urban regions in Canada. Specifically, we noted for the Toronto case: "There is a public poverty that has settled across this urban […]
First we take Manhattan… and then we take the ‘burbs?
By Roger Keil A strange thing happened in the heart of the world’s most centralized global city. During the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in New York City (February 24-28, 2012), suburban themes took centre stage. Remarkably, an unusual number of sessions presented research on suburbanization and suburbanism from around the […]
