Global Suburbanisms

11/04/2019

Global suburbanisms redux.

Most of the world's urban residents now live in suburban areas. A multi-year, multi-site project has conducted research internationally about these changing urban areas.

09/24/2019

SSHRC postdoctoral fellow Samantha Biglieri talks to Ralph Benmergui about aging in the suburbs on Upstream Radio podcast Plan B

Creating a healthy society through evidence-based, people-centred ideas.

09/24/2019

"Recent calls for a deeper understanding of suburban space challenge existing definitions and, at a minimum, demand considering them more broadly. Roger Keil and his colleagues have been at the forefront of this movement as part of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative project on Global Suburbanisms."

Defining Suburbs: How Definitions Shape the Suburban Landscape This paper examines three types of suburban definitions to understand how they differentially shape our understanding of suburban space and suburban change. The

09/24/2019

Reviewing Suburban Planet: A roundtable w/ Theresa Enright, Bérénice Bon, Philippe Koch, and Roger Keil

Roger Keil's new book, 'Suburban Planet', is a major contribution to (re)thinking the urban age in terms its peripheries rather than its centres. He seeks to provide us with a way of coming to terms with the process of suburbanization and the diversity of suburban forms. But does he succeed? And wha...

09/24/2019

We are living on a suburban planet, if you ask Roger Keil.

Situating his work on global suburbanisms in relation to the L.A. School and the debate around planetary urbanization, he flexes his intellectual muscles to make us believe that it is the suburbs that Marx and Lefebvre would pay most attention to today.

We are living on a suburban planet, if you ask Roger. He even wrote a book with that title. In the interview, he elaborates on the political implications of that condition. Situating his work on global suburbanisms in relation to the L.A. School and the debate around planetary urbanization, he flexe...

09/24/2019

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-how-canadas-suburban-dream-became-a-debt-filled-nightmare/

For decades, families have flocked to the suburbs in search of affordable housing. But increasingly, those neighbourhoods are debt traps. Why Canadian commuters are the economy’s greatest risk

09/24/2019

“To be a good planner, you must have your feet solidly on the ground; it needs your engagement with the everyday life in cities”

http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/09/19/experiential-education-takes-planning-students-abroad-and-its-a-boot-camp-for-the-brain/

05/29/2019

Roger Keil will deliver the 2019 Sir Peter Hall Lecture on June 5 at UCL on the topic of “Metabolic Suburbia: Facing the connectivity of the extended urban world.”

Prof. Roger Keil to deliver prestigious Sir Peter Hall Lecture in London, England May 27, 2019 A prestigious annual lecture that pays tribute to the late Sir Peter Hall, a global figure in the study of cities and regions and their planning, will be delivered this year by York University Faculty of E...

05/21/2019

“Brampton,” says Keil, who has been researching the Greater Toronto Area’s shifting suburban landscapes for the past decade, “forces us to rethink the categories by which we chart our post-suburban world.”

Church spires, minarets and a white multi-domed Sikh temple; glass skyscrapers, sports complexes, and neon-lit strip malls adjacent to verdant parks and quaint Victorian-era structures dating back to the 1850s – Brampton is an architectural mishmash, an Ontario suburb in transition. “A city in w...

05/21/2019

Thank you to everyone who came out last week to our Global Suburbanisms double book launch!

Missed it? You can order the books online: https://utorontopress.com/ca/books/by-series/global-suburbanisms

05/10/2019

Please join us Monday May 13 form 5pm-7pm at A Different Booklist for the launch of two new books from UTP's Global Suburbanisms book series.

09/25/2018

on Toronto's sub/urban politics and the upcoming election:

The suburbs do lean more conservative, and downtown more left, experts say, but don’t think that divide is set in stone.