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Book Review: Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution (2003 [1970]), the Global Urban Problematic and Revolutionary Movements in the 21st Century

In this review, I will outline the ways in which Lefebvre’s (2003) classic text, The Urban Revolution, can help us to understand what I call the global urban problematic – or the dialectical relationship between space and spatial arrangements and human society and social relations on a global scale – and how an understanding of this global urban problematic is important for those engaged in revolutionary politics and full-fledged revolutionary movements in the 21st century.

CHARTING THE UNEVEN DOMESTIC APPLICATION OF LAW IN THE GLOBAL CITY – by Gregory Smith

In the last two decades, cities have received a wealth of scholarly attention. Geographers,2 urban planners,3 sociologists,4 philosophers,5 economists,6 and political scientists7 have viewed subjects such as economic competition,8 citizenship,9 social cohesion10 and regulation and governance11 through the lens of cities’ lived and built environments. Many contemporary scholars view the urban as a key site for the negotiation, propagation, and contestation of various globalized phenomena.

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CURL’s Sixth Video in the CP&S Campaing of Ideas: Creative Bureaucracy

In March 2010 CURL partnered up with Artscape and The Firehouse to produce a series of 8 videos from the Creative Places & Spaces conference which took place on October 29-20, 2009 in Toronto . We hope that these video will spark some discussion about the idea of a creative and collaborative city.

This video highlights Charles’ keynote presentation at Creative Places + Spaces where he underlines how innovating bureaucracy is the challenge for everyone to turn their cities into great places. Landry believes that if we can make government more creative and more collaborative, we make our communities better.

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A Visual History of Public Housing
by Jason Ramsay on June 18th, 2010

In Toronto, public housing is getting a massive do-over. Well, at least in part. Witness the Regent Park revitalization: Within the last year, vertically dense, glass and concrete structures with the look and basic amenities of the better condos that line the Gardiner Expressway rose up near Dundas and Parliament.
The buildings reflect light, unlike their [...]

Mapping the Urban Photographer
by Jason Ramsay on May 25th, 2010

Every iPhoneur (the post-post-modern flaneur) operates in a state of flow when they are perambulating around the city with their camera poised: walking, observing, discerning. Every picture (“capture” in the iPhoneur’s lingo) represents a unique, timeless and irreproducible moment of truth. Each pathway to that enlightened photo is unique…..
Is it?
As much as I would like [...]

Top Up: The Decharacterization of East York?
by Jason Ramsay on May 21st, 2010

Top Up
Top Up has come to my neighbourhood. Born in the upper crusty Leasides in the 90s it crept across the Millwood bridge and has reproduced on every street. Beige stuccoed boxes are replacing homegrown, affordable, in-need-of-love worker’s cottages and three bedroom homes. The decharacterization of East York has begun.
My five year old thinks it [...]

Upcoming Events

CURL is located at the Computer Methods Building (4850 Keele St.) Just a five minute walk from York Lanes!

From York Lanes, go to Chimney Stack Rd and walk towards Keele. Make a left just before Keele onto Rideau Rd. You will see a big parking lot on the right hand side. Walk through the parking lot to Computer Methods building entrance. CURL is located in Suite 218.

Events:

CURL Featured in Continuum

Regulating la Cité Imaginée: Innovative Urban Governance Research at Osgoode

For almost two years now, the Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL or the ‘Lab’), under the auspices of Osgoode’s Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society (www.criticalresearchlab.org) has been adding a complex and layered perspective to the study of cities through an unusual mix of research and artistic production.

Followup on CURL’s Official Launch featured in Y-File

The Collaborative Urban Research Laboratory (CURL), under the auspices of the Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School, has officially been launched, bringing together an unusual mix of the academic and creative, and adding a complex and layered perspective to discussions about cities.

Reading Lab:

CURL Reading Lab 2009-2010: Session 1

Toronto: Focus on Growth & Planning

Screening Series:


*** The Screening Series Will Resume in September 2010 ***

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

MAY 2010

Aldis Sukse – Illustrator

Rendering Toronto

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