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 Towards Suburbia Speaker Series by the Major Collaborative Research Initiative Global Suburbanisms led by York University 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 After Suburbia, the final conference (with link to website) of a long-term research initiative on global suburbanization hosted by York University 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 Global Suburbanisms. 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 Atlas of Suburbanisms blog and founder of Generationed City.
WHERE: Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond St., Toronto
The following speakers will discuss different aspects of suburbia on the following dates:
- Rob Shields, University of Alberta
October 11, from 12:30 to 2pm
140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
Keele campus, York University - Andre Ortega, University of Philippines
November 8, from 12:30 to 2pm
140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
Keele campus, York University - Liette Gilbert, York University
November 29, from 12:30 to 2pm
140 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building
Keele campus, York University
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