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CiTR -- The City

Each week host and producer Andrew Longhurst provides listeners with an alternative look at our changing urban spaces in this weekly urban affairs show. The program includes news, interviews, discussions, documentaries, and music. You"ll find critical discussions of the people, politics, policies, and processes shaping urban geographies on issues ranging from gentrification to food security to urban economic change.

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The Politics of Housing the Homeless: Lack of...

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2014/01/15

Has it been a lack of neighbourhood consultation or simply a case of the NIMBY syndrome in Vancouvers eastside? Or perhaps a bit of both? Is fear and misinformation framing the conversation about supportive housing? On the program, we look at the concerns and politics around the planned 95 units of transitional housing in Mount Pleasants former Biltmore Hotel. How significant are the locational conflicts over low-income housing and harm reduction for Vancouver and the region more generally? And

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From Abbotsford to Portland: Homelessness and Harm...

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2014/01/08

We hear about the homelessness and harm reduction situation in Abbotsford, BC and an alternative housing model in Portland, Oregon. In 2005, the City of Abbotsford passed a bylaw effectively banning harm reduction services, and in summer of 2013, the City dumped manure on a homeless encampment in an attempt to force them out of the area. Pivot Legal Society's DJ Larkin speaks about legal challenges against the City of Abbotsford that are currently in the courts. Finally, we from Lisa Larson about

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2013 Year in Review: Part III

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2013/12/18

On the podcast, we look back at the year of critical urban discussions on topics including transportation, neighbourhood change, the environment, social movements, feminism, and labour.

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2013 Year in Review: Part II

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2013/12/11

On the podcast, we look back at the year of critical urban discussions on topics including transportation, neighbourhood change, the environment, social movements, feminism, and labour.

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2013 Year in Review: Part I

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2013/12/04

On the podcast, we look back at the year of critical urban discussions on topics including transportation, neighbourhood change, the environment, and labour.

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Gentrification and the Waterfront

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2013/11/27

Using the storied San Francisco waterfront as a case study, Jasper Rubin (San Francisco State University) examines the reflexive relationship that gentrification creates between the waterfront and the city. Recorded in November 2013 as part of the SFU Urban Studies Gentrification and the City Speaker Series.

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Neoliberal urbanism: Artful alternatives?

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2013/11/20

What does it mean to say that cities like Vancouver have taken a neoliberal turn, embracing market-oriented policies while paying little more than lip service to questions of social welfare, affordability, and environmental sustainability? Does the embrace of creativity really hold the promise of an alternative path, or does it threaten more of the same? Exploring these questions, Jamie Peck will chart the rise of the neoliberal city, calling attention to its mutations, its limits, and to its

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Global Climate Change and Urban Policies: Do Local...

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2013/11/13

Failed efforts at the international, national and sub-national levels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have prompted some city governments to set their own greenhouse gas targets and implement policies in pursuit of these. But how can we determine the effectiveness of these policies? Are urban climate strategies just hype or potentially a significant answer to these challenges? We hear from SFU School of Resource and Environmental Management professor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Mark Jaccard

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Lessons from San Francisco? The Culture of Renting...

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2013/11/06

Jackie Wong discusses her recent series, Generation Rent: Two Cities, Two Directions, recently published by The Tyee. We talk about the differences and similarities between Vancouver and San Francisco and we specifically explore how political attitudes towards renting and renters can shape cities in profound ways. What are the differences between these two west coast cities? And what might we learn from our southern neighbour?

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Degraded Work in the North American City

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2013/10/30

Does the growth of service sector jobs in North American cities imply greater urban inequality? What are the implications of deteriorating job quality in our cities? How can organizers, workers, and policymakers challenge the degradation of work? On the podcast, Marc Doussard discusses his recent book, Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labour Market, which is based on extensive field research in Chicago. His 2013 book details the deteriorating conditions of employment in

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Making Stanley Park: Idealized Nature and...

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2013/10/16

Environmental historian and author Sean Kheraj traces how this tension between popular expectations of idealized nature and the volatility of complex ecosystems helped shape the landscape of one of the worlds most famous urban parks. Kheraj's book, Inventing Stanley Park, examines how human forces have shaped and continue to shape this urban environmental space. Kheraj asks us to question our understanding of the 'nature' of Stanley Park, and why it is important be aware of our complex

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Making Stanley Park: From Colonial Legal Practices to...

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2013/10/09

UBC Sociology Professor Renisa Mawani traces the ways in which colonial and imperial power have historically been inscribed in the land now known as Stanley Park.

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Making Stanley Park: The Forgotten Families of Whoi...

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2013/09/25

Historian and author Jean Barman reflects on Stanley Park's 125th Anniversary and processes of dispossession which were part of the making of Stanley Park. Her book Stanley Park's Secret won the 2006 City of Vancouver Book Prize. She also situates Stanley Park within the country's broader colonial geographies and the ongoing work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools.

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Labour, Economic Security, and the Struggle at the...

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2013/09/04

Professor Marjorie Griffin Cohen (SFU Political Science and Women's Studies) discusses the challenges facing low-wage workers and unions, and policy options to foster greater economic security. Ben Isitt (Victoria City Councillor, labour historian, and legal scholar) talks about the history of BC's labour movement in order to put current challenges into context.

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Gender, Housing Rights, and Local Solutions to the...

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2013/08/28

What are local solutions to addressing affordable housing, homelessness, and mental health? What are the gender dimensions to these issues? We explore these issues in a Vancouver context with four speakers who bring considerable experience and insight into providing safe, adequate, affordable, and gender-inclusive housing in the city.

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Becoming Urban in Asia

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2013/08/14

Urban scholar John Friedmann (UBC and UCLA) reflects on how we're to make sense of rapid urbanization in Asia. "The first half of the 21st century is anticipated to be a period of continuing large-scale urbanization in the developing world, with much of this occurring in Asian countries, especially China and India. This fundamental, on-going change in Asia presents, on the one hand, prospects for economic prosperity, new visions of an urban future and the potential for local democratization, and on

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Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium...

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2013/08/07

Dr. Leslie Kern, a professor of women's studies, discusses her book 'Sex and the Revitalized City: Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship' and the social and political implications of real estate development reshaping the landscape of cities.

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Making Cities Work for Women: Gender Equality and...

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2013/07/31

Dr. Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto) and author and urban planner Prabha Khosla speak at the Women Transforming Cities National Conference convened on May 30, 2013. Dr. Bashevkin speaks about how women are to transform cities, and Ms. Khosla speaks discusses gender equality and social inclusion in municipal policies and services.

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'My Brooklyn' Filmmaker on Race, Class, and...

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2013/07/17

A conversation with 'My Brooklyn' documentary filmmaker Allison Lirish Dean on race, class, corporate redevelopment, and the displacement of vibrant and unique urban places.

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Dispatch from Rio: Brazil's Urban Social Movement...

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2013/07/10

A Rio de Janiero-based social anthropologist, Dr. Cecilia Mello, discusses the urban social movements taking to the streets in Brazilian cities demanding a better quality of life and a right to the city.

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