Stefan Kipfer talks about Urban Revolutions

On Tuesday, January 24, Professor Stefan Kipfer was joined by Prof. Kanishka Goonewardena (Geography & Planning, University of Toronto) and Prof. Laam Hae (Politics, York University) for a discussion of his book Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context. In preparation for the event, EUC graduate student, Danielle Legault, interviewed Stefan Kipfer, on what

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Director of City Institute at York celebrated by American Association of Geographers

Linda Peake, professor in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and director of the City Institute, was awarded the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Lifetime Achievement Honors for her scholarly contributions to feminist and urban geographies, and for a career dedicated to extending equity, diversity and inclusion at her institution and across the discipline

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Distinguished Professor of Indigenous Design and Planning, Professor Ted Jojola, visits York

York University is proud to welcome Regents’ and Distinguished Professor Theodore (Ted) Jojola, Creator and Director of the Indigenous Design and Community Planning Institute (iD+Pi) at the University of New Mexico, for a knowledge sharing trip to Toronto. He aims to learn from the conversations taking place at York University around Indigenous community planning, share

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Building migrant resilience across the cities of Ontario and Quebec

How do migrants settle in different local contexts and develop capacities to overcome settlement challenges? Why do particular migrants do better than others even when compared to their peers from the same background? How can institutions facilitate and support migrant settlement and integration in urban areas across Quebec and Ontario? These are some of the

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De/centering the ‘community benefit’ in Toronto’s inner-suburbs

In Toronto, Canada, core-periphery relations have shifted through re-mappings of city boundaries and districts over the past seventy years: austerity-led amalgamations resulting in new peripheralizations, with subsequent attempts at addressing disparity with an emphasis on place. Publicly disinvested, the now inner-suburbs of Toronto are driven into new competitive relationships, and therefore becoming vulnerable to private

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The utility headquarters as a symbol of eco-modernism

by Zachary Dark As part of my broader research into the contemporary politics of hydroelectricity in Canada, I am interested in how hydroelectric infrastructure both physically and symbolically remakes environments. In 2009, Manitoba Hydro (a provincially-owned electricity utility in Manitoba, Canada) opened its new headquarters on the edge of downtown Winnipeg. The award-winning headquarters building,

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Tamo Campos

Tamo Campos was featured as one of York University's Community of Changemakers. Here is his story! About Tamo Campos Tamo Campos is a filmmaker, impact practitioner, community organizer and extreme sports athlete. His films include The Klabona Keepers (2022), Ru-Tsu (2020), The Radicals (2018), A Last Stand For Lelu (2016), Northern Grease (2013) & over

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Edward Parker

About Edward Parker Edward Parker (he/him) is a Meteorological Technician for Environmental and Climate Change Canada (ECCC). As a federal employee, he travels the country installing weather stations both on land and at sea with the help of the Canadian Coast Guard. These weather stations, installed and maintained by Parker and his team, provide the

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John H Warkentin

Professor Emeritus Senior Scholar Research Interests My interests lie in how the writing and study of geography developed in what today is Canada. This has taken me from exploration literature to the scientific exploration of Canada, the mapping of Canada, settlement studies, early teaching of geography in Canadian universities, and regional writing on Canada whether

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Passing: Professor Emeritus J. David Wood

The Geography and EUC community at York was saddened to learn of the death of our colleague David Wood on October 15th 2022. We are grateful to Glen Norcliffe for this account of David’s life and contributions. An obituary published in the Toronto Star is also available online. Beginnings matter: often they matter a lot. 

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