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GEOG 4280, Summer 2013 Edition 8 May 2013 | 09:13 am
The Imagining Toronto course (GEOG 4280 3.0) will be offered in the Department of Geography at York University in the Summer of 2013. The course syllabus may be accessed here. This term, slides, han...
The Naked City: Film, Fiction and the Represented Urban Landscape | 2013 Willowbank Lectures 13 Apr 2013 | 01:29 pm
On Saturday 13 April 2013 I’ll be doing a talk called “The Naked City: Film, Fiction and the Represented Urban Landscape” as part of the 2013 Willowbank Lectures at the Willowbank Centre for Cultural ...
Imagining Toronto the Wild at the Toronto Botanical Garden 18 May 2012 | 02:40 am
I’ll be the inaugural speaker at the Toronto Botanical Garden‘s HortiCULTURE Salon Series tonight, 17 May 2012 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. My talk, titled “Imagining Toronto the Wild,” will explore Toronto...
Representing Toronto: Mapping the Role of the Artist in the City 30 Mar 2012 | 08:56 pm
Just a quick update to let people know I’ll be contributing to an upcoming panel discussion called “Representing Toronto: Mapping the Role of the Artist in the City” at the Koffler Gallery Off-site (8...
Week 12: Desire Lines 22 Mar 2012 | 05:46 am
Lecture slides for today are available here: 2011-2012 Week 12 slides GEOG 4280 Desire Lines
Week 11: City Limits 14 Mar 2012 | 11:12 pm
This week in the Imagining Toronto course we’ll discuss representations of suburbia, beginning with stereotypical notions of suburbs as middle-class bastions of white-flight and going on to discuss ho...
Week 10: Class Fictions 8 Mar 2012 | 04:02 am
Slides for today’s class are available here: 2011-2012 Week 10 slides GEOG 4280 Class Fictions
GEOG 4280 Week 6: The Myth of the Multicultural City Part II: The Place of Our Meeting with the Other 9 Feb 2012 | 08:12 am
While politicians and ideologues declare multiculturalism at an end, people in Toronto go about our everyday lives, thrown together by collisions of culture, conflict and circumstance. This week in th...
GEOG 4280 Week 5: The Myth of the Multicultural City Part I: The End of Multiculturalism? 2 Feb 2012 | 08:40 am
Lecture slides are accessible here: 2011-2012 Week 5 slides GEOG 4280 Myth of the Multicultural City Part I
GEOG 4280 Week 4: The City of Neighbourhoods 26 Jan 2012 | 08:46 am
Slides for today’s class are accessible here: 2011-2012 Week 4 slides GEOG 4280 The City of Neighbourhoods Link: “We define ourselves by our neighbourhoods” Link: Neighbourhood map of Toronto (Toron...
