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A very exciting and vibrant dialogue took place between planning professionals, social movement actors and community activists. Many thoughtful and through-provoking insights were shared on a wide range of issues pertaining to: community-based initiatives and local governance, the role of planning and politics in urban development, the strengths and weaknesses of public-private partnerships, how cities can deal with crisis, and much, much more!

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This talk examines how mis/disinformation and conspiracy theories spread through social media have transformed at an unprecedented rate, the very nature of culture and politics in contemporary society. What is involved in these transformations? What are the implications of these transformations for the development of an impending democratic crisis in North America? We will discuss how this crisis in democracy is evident in terms of the polarization of society and the development of a crisis politics; enhanced conditions for encouraging the expression of political violence; the development of a post-truth society, and the dominance of politics by a small number of business and technical elites (that is, oligarchy), as well as the rise of authoritarian tendencies.

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A new published in the Journal of Canadian Studies by CITY Institute Director, Harris Ali, explores how populism, conspiracy theories and social media work together to weaken democratic systems in Canada and the United States.

Read more about the new study here.

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New article by S. Harris Ali, Creighton Connolly, and Roger Keil

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Pictured below from left to right are CITY members:  Roger Keil, Harris Ali, Sébastien Lambelet

(CITY participants not pictured: Ute Lehrer, Natalya Murzenko)

Congratulations to Roger and Sébastien who gave papers based on CITY-based research projects supported by CIFAR and SNRF funding on Future-Proofing Climate Boomtowns: Public Policies and Community Actions in Chicago, Toronto, Geneva and Zurich.Ìý

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