TORONTO, Monday, October 16 – Around the world suburbs have danced on the edges of cities commanding ever greater roles. As more attention is placed on governance and maturing of these spaces, many are becoming vibrant areas of economic growth and culture. Learn more about the rise of suburbs at the MCRI Global Suburbanisms conference at 91ÑÇÉ«, Oct. 19 to 21.

The conference has speakers from around the world discussing the changing nature of suburbanization. It has sessions on suburban populism, governance, the changing nature of land and infrastructure in the periphery, a suburban mayors’ panel, art exhibits and a theatre performance.

The following are some of the highlights:

Thursday, Oct. 19

5:30pm, Tribute Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, Keele campus – City planning Professor Solly Angel, Director of the NYU Urban Expansion Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and the Stern School of Business at New 91ÑÇÉ«, will discuss urban expansion in the opening keynote. Angel is the co-author of several books, including of Atlas of Urban Expansion (2016).

7:30pm, Art Gallery of 91ÑÇÉ«, East Accolade Building – An Artist Talk & Tour for the exhibit Migrating the Margins. The exhibit explores how Toronto art is evolving after decades of immigration and life in the suburbs, and how the artists in and of the urban periphery are reimagining art.

Friday, Oct. 20

Underground Restaurant, Student Centre, Keele campus

Noon to 12:45pm – Economics Professor Roberto Luís Monte-Mór  of the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil will give a keynote, titled Extended Urbanization, Urban Utopias and Other Economies.

12:45 to 2pm – A Mayors Panel with Bob Burton of Oakville, Linda Jeffrey of Brampton, Jeff Lehman of Barrie and Steve Parish of Ajax. They will be joined by Toronto planning consultant Sean Hertel of the Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group and the City Institute at 91ÑÇÉ«. The mayors will discuss governing the changing urban periphery as the towns and cities that make up the suburbs of Toronto now contain most of the region’s population and economic growth and as they become more central to sociocultural identity and prosperity of one of the world’s pre-eminent regions.

2 to 2:45pm – Keynote by Jennifer Robinson, Comparative Suburban Research.

Saturday October 21

Noon to 12:45pm, 140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building – Keynote by Fulong Wu, London, on Suburban Governance.

12:45 to 2pm, Zig Zag Gallery, 136 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building, Keele campus – A photography and data visualization exhibition on . Created by Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Global Suburbanisms (MCRI) researchers Ute Lehrer of 91ÑÇɫ’s Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES), Markus Moos of University of Waterloo, and Robert Walter-Joseph of Weston Consulting.

2 to 2:45pm, 140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building – Keynote by Crystal Legacy, Melbourne, on Suburban Infrastructure.

4:30pm, 140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building – 91ÑÇÉ« FES Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of the MCRI and the author of the forthcoming book Suburban Planet, will give the closing keynote, After Suburbia: Peripheral Notes on Urban Theory.

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 is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91ÑÇÉ« students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world’s most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91ÑÇÉ« U is an internationally recognized research university – our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91ÑÇÉ« is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91ÑÇÉ« U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

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TORONTO, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 – Reports heralding the death of suburbs are greatly exaggerated. Instead, suburbs in North America continue to expand.

The fourth in the by the Major Collaborative Research Initiative led by 91ÑÇÉ« Research Chair Roger Keil of the Faculty of Environmental Studies will address some of the most common misconceptions about suburbs.

Once people move to the suburbs they soon realize economic inequality and poverty is just as rife as in the city. The suburbs, and the way people are living in them, are more complicated than their public image gives them credit for.

University of Waterloo Associate Professor of planning Markus Moos and co-editor Robert Walter-Joseph, a planner with Weston Consulting, will discuss "suburbanisms" as particular ways of living.

The event leads up to (with link to website) of a long-term research initiative on global suburbanization hosted by 91ÑÇÉ« October 19 to 21, which brings leading local and global scholars together.

WHAT: Fourth event in the Towards Suburbia Speaker Series and book launch for Still Detached and Subdivided? Suburban Ways of Living in 21st-Century North America in the run up to the completion of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative . The event will feature live music, a suburban themed exhibit and a Q&A with the authors.

WHEN: Wednesday, Oct. 4, from 5:30 to 7:30pm

WHO: Markus Moos, team lead for the Major Collaborative Research Initiative Global Suburbanism, lead author of the blog and founder of .

WHERE: Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond St., Toronto

The following speakers will discuss different aspects of suburbia on the following dates:

• , University of Alberta
  October 11, from 12:30 to 2pm
  140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
  Keele campus, 91ÑÇÉ«
• Andre Ortega, University of Philippines
  November 8, from 12:30 to 2pm
  140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
  Keele campus, 91ÑÇÉ«
• , 91ÑÇÉ«
  November 29, from 12:30 to 2pm
  140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
  Keele campus, 91ÑÇÉ«

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is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91ÑÇÉ« students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world’s most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91ÑÇÉ« U is an internationally recognized research university – our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91ÑÇÉ« is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91ÑÇÉ« U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contact:

Sandra McLean, 91ÑÇÉ« Media Relations, 416-736-2100 ext. 22097, sandramc@yorku.ca

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TORONTO, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 – The suburbs have often been unfairly maligned, but they continue to grow and push further away from cities, while attracting millions to call them home. The changing nature and significance suburbs around the world will be discussed during the Towards Suburbia Speaker Series at 91ÑÇÉ«.

WHAT: Third speaker in the Towards Suburbia Speaker Series, which runs as the seven-year Major Collaborative Research Initiative wraps up.

WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 20, from 12:30 to 2pm

WHO: 91ÑÇÉ« U Professor Abidin Kusno of the and director of the . He is the author of several books, including After the New Order: Space, Politics and Jakarta and The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia.

Kusno will look at Jakarta as an example of semi-urbanization and how many areas of Southeast Asia are experiencing a hybrid form of urban and rural, different from the urban sprawl most thought of with suburbanization.

WHERE: 140 Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies Building, Keele campus (number 31 on the ).

The remaining speakers will discuss different aspects of suburbia on the following dates:

• & University of Waterloo
  October 4, from 5:30 to 7:30pm
  Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond
• , University of Alberta
  October 11, from 12:30 to 2pm
  140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
  Keele campus, 91ÑÇÉ«
• , University of Philippines
  November 8, from 12:30 to 2pm
  140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
  Keele campus, 91ÑÇÉ«
• , 91ÑÇÉ«
  November 29, from 12:30 to 2pm
  140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
  Keele campus, 91ÑÇÉ«

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About 91ÑÇÉ«

is known for championing new ways of thinking that drive teaching and research excellence. Our students receive the education they need to create big ideas that make an impact on the world. Meaningful and sometimes unexpected careers result from cross-discipline programming, innovative course design and diverse experiential learning opportunities. 91ÑÇÉ« students and graduates push limits, achieve goals and find solutions to the world’s most pressing social challenges, empowered by a strong community that opens minds. 91ÑÇÉ« U is an internationally recognized research university – our 11 faculties and 26 research centres have partnerships with 200+ leading universities worldwide. Located in Toronto, 91ÑÇÉ« is the third largest university in Canada, with a strong community of 53,000 students, 7,000 faculty and administrative staff, and more than 295,000 alumni. 91ÑÇÉ« U's fully bilingual Glendon campus is home to Southern Ontario's Centre of Excellence for French Language and Bilingual Postsecondary Education.

Media Contact:

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