, appearing in the聽 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research explores the "In-between city" and how politics and infrastructure have shaped, and are shaping the suburbs of Toronto. From the abstract of聽Locating the Urban In-Between Tracking the Urban Politics of Infrastructure in Toronto:
We pose the question of location of urban politics from a specific deficit in the geography of centre, suburb and metropolis. We argue that in today's regional political socio鈥恠patiality, politics will have to be found 鈥榠n鈥恇etween鈥 the old lines of demarcation. Following Tom Sieverts' (2003) advice to look at the 鈥榠n鈥恇etween鈥 cities that are neither old downtown nor new suburb but complex urban landscapes of mixed density, use and urbanity, we reveal the political vacuum that is at the heart of the urban region today. Using the politics of infrastructure in Toronto as our empirical example, we will show that vulnerabilities and risks for urban populations in that Canadian metropolis' in鈥恇etween city are co鈥恎enerated by the failure of conventional political spaces and processes to capture the connectivities threaded through those places that are in鈥恇etween the centre and exurbia.