From the ‘burbs to birds and from social justice to Olympic poetry, the next installment of the 91ÑÇÉ« Circle’s popular Lecture & Lunch series returns on Saturday, April 30. It promises plenty of new ideas for inquiring minds. As with previous 91ÑÇÉ« Circle Lecture & Lunch events, organizers have planned a full day of inspiring lectures […]
A United Way report last week highlighted a problem in Toronto: our city’s poor are increasingly concentrated in crumbling highrise towers, mostly in the inner suburbs, wrote Edward Keenan in EYE Weekly Jan. 20: The report addresses a subject that National Film Board filmmaker-in-residence Katerina Cizek has been studying for two years, while making films on […]
Study co-authored by Professor Stephen Gaetz, who leads SSHRC-funded homelessness project Homeless young people are victims of crime at rates that society would consider unacceptable for any other group, according to a new report by researchers at 91ÑÇÉ« and the University of Guelph. The report, Surviving Crime and Violence: Street Youth and Victimization in […]
How can schools and communities work together to create innovative avenues to engage students in their education? That is the central theme of this year’s Summer Institute offered by the 91ÑÇÉ« Centre for Education & Community (YCEC) in the Faculty of Education. Presented Aug. 17, 18 and 19 at 91ÑÇɫ’s Keele campus, this year’s program […]
The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But 91ÑÇÉ« environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there’s a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]
91ÑÇÉ« researchers awarded two of SSHRC’s largest grants to study long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanism Two teams led by 91ÑÇÉ« researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, […]
A lunchtime panel featuring presentations by 91ÑÇÉ« researchers and urban planning professionals will wrap up two recent research projects tomorrow – "In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability", based out of the City Institute at 91ÑÇÉ« (City), and geography Professor Lucia Lo's "Infrastructure in 91ÑÇÉ« Region: A GIS Analysis of Human Services". The panel discussion, […]
The Globe & Mail ran an urban renewal feature today on the transformation of Surrey, viewed in the past as Vancouver's ‘ugly sister', into Canada's fastest-growing suburb. Part of its success, Lisa Rochon writes, is Surrey's emphasis on innovative design. Rochon's article quotes Roger Keil, professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, director of the […]