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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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Zoned Out? Towers, Upzoning, and the Future of...

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2013/06/26

In June 2013, City of Vancouver planning staff released the draft community plan for the Grandview-Woodland neighbourhood in the heart of East Vancouver. Residents are shocked at the proposed 22-36 storey towers and the upzoning of substantial parts of the neighbourhood known for its existing affordable housing stock and unique feel and character. Where did these directions come from? Are planning staff listening to the community? What does public consultation mean to residents and staff? What are

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Interventions for Feminist Urban Futures

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2013/06/19

How can cities be more attentive to the needs of women and girls? How do we design, plan, and foster the ideal city for women and girls? From the 2013 Women Transforming Cities conference in Vancouver, we hear from urban scholar Dr. Tiffany Muller Myrdahl as she discusses interventions for feminist urban futures.

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It's More Than Poverty: Study Finds Employment...

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2013/06/05

Precarious employment is increasing in the Hamilton and Greater Toronto Area and its harmful effects on individuals, families, and community life are documented in a recently released research report. Today on the program, were talking labour economist Wayne Lewchuk and lead author of a research study that explored poverty, employment precarity, and household wellbeing in southern Ontario. The report seeks to broaden the public discussion around poverty, and implicate deteriorating work conditions

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Michael Laxer on the Rob Ford Saga // Engaging Women,...

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2013/05/29

Hes been fighting substance use allegations and defending his ability to govern the city of Toronto. Well be discussing the Rob Ford saga with rabble.ca contributor Michael Laxer. Does this be the end of Mayor Rob Fords bumpy tenure at city hall? And in the second half of the show, we hear about the Women Transforming Cities 2013 Conference from Associate Professor Margot Young (UBC Law), which is designed to facilitate discussion about transforming our cities into places where women are more

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The Right to Adequate Housing in Canada

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2013/05/08

In July 2012, UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Miloon Kothari spoke on the right to adequate housing as part of Simon Fraser Universitys Public Square speaker series. In 2000, Mr. Kothari was appointed the first Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living. His mandate ended in 2008. On the podcast, Miloon Kothari discusses Canada's housing problems in global context, policy solutions, and the right to the city for marginalized

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[Podcast] Vancouver: The Best Place on Earth? Matt...

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2013/04/24

In 2011, Simon Fraser Universitys Department of History hosted a lecture series, Think you know Vancouver? Think Again. On January 27th, local authors Matt Hern and Charlie Demers addressed the question of whether Vancouver, as it is often branded, is indeed the best place on earth. Their humorous discussion provides a critical take on Vancouver, its history (or perceived lack of history), and why we need to think about Vancouver with a bit more honesty. In a March podcast, we heard from local

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Tearing Down the Viaducts: Green for All or Green for...

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2013/04/17

Vancouver City Council, under the direction of the ruling Vision Vancouver party, wants to remove two remnants of the never fully realized inner city highway system in the downtown core. But, in the process, two long-standing community gardens are threatened with demolition. In this documentary, Green for All or Green for Some, Peter Driftmier explores the debate around the removal of the viaducts through the twin lenses of gentrification and environmental sustainability. As of April 2013, city

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Divisions and Disparities in Lotus Land: The Social...

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2013/04/03

UBC geographer Nicholas Lynch is co-author of a recent study, Divisions and Disparities in Lotus Land: Socio-Spatial Income Polarization in Greater Vancouver, 1970-2005. The research presents worrisome trends, with an increasingly divided Vancouver and a disappearing middle class. We discuss the social geography of polarization across the region, the implications, and possible policy solutions.

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Taking on the Premier: The NDP's David Eby on...

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2013/03/27

The BC NDP's David Eby (former executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association) is running against BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark in the Vancouver-Point Grey riding on Vancouver's wealthy westside in the upcoming provincial election. He discusses regional planning, housing, poverty, jobs, and the importance of progressive provincial-municipal policies.

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Getting From Here to There: Transportation Policy,...

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2013/03/20

Transportation planning and policy expert Matti Siemiatycki (University of Toronto) discusses transportation policy and planning within the Vancouver context, lessons from the Canada Line, the politics of transportation planning, and the possible UBC-Broadway rapid transit line and the implications for urban development.

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Author and Comedian Charlie Demers: Vancouver, Best...

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2013/03/13

In 2011, to mark Vancouvers 125th anniversary, the Simon Fraser University Department of History hosted a lecture series, Think You Know Vancouver? Think Again. On January 27th, 2011, local authors Matt Hern and Charlie Demers gave short talks to address the question: Vancouver: The Best Place on Earth? and in turn provided a critical take on Vancouver, its history or perceived lack of history, and why we need to think about Vancouver with a bit more honesty. We hear from Charlie Demers in the

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Special Frundrive Show

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2013/03/05

We listen back to some of the highlights from the past year for CiTR's Annual Fundrive. Please support The City, CiTR Radio, and another year of quality, independent programming. Call 604-822-8648 or donate online at www.citr.ca/fundrive. Thank you for your support.

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Vancouver Green Party Councillor Challenges Vision...

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2013/02/27

Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr (Green Party) is a vocal critic of the Vision Vancouver-dominated City Council. We discuss her concerns around the creation of city-subsidized market rental housing and attempts to redefine 'affordable' housing, and Vision's plan to centralize funding for community centres (and her run-in with the City Manager and Vision over the issue). Additionally, we discuss the city's development trajectory and transportation.

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Chinatown: The Next Yaletown? // Vancouver Loses...

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2013/02/20

Vancouver's Chinatown is undergoing rapid transformation. The Carnegie Community Action Project's Jean Swanson discusses why a huge influx of condominiums and retail gentrification are threatening to displace the neighbourhood's low-income residents and why the city is approving these major developments before the completion of the Downtown Eastside local area plan. Independently-owned Festival Cinemas has been sold to Cineplex. The City talks with co-owner Leonard Schein about why he is calling

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The Production and Penalization of the Precariat in...

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2013/02/13

Loic Wacquant is professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and is a researcher with the European Centre of Sociology and Political Science in Paris. His research focuses on comparative urban marginality with a focus on Chicagos 'hyper-ghetto' and Pariss racialized urban periphery. Wacquants research also looks at broader issues of urban poverty, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, and social theory. He is the author of many books and articles, including Urban

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The Production and Penalization of the Precariat in...

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2013/02/06

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Idle No More: Issues, Perspectives, and Histories

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2013/01/30

We hear several aboriginal perspectives on the Idle No More movement from a recently convened public forum in Vancouver - Idle? Know more! Speakers provide a background to the movement and situate it within the colonial-capitalist past and present.

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The Working City: Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers

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2013/01/23

We continue the ongoing series, The Working City, by discussing Canada's temporary foreign worker program with Krystle Alarcon, the author of a recent four-part series which documents the many problems with the program and the possibility for reform.

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The Waldorf, W2, and Vancouver's Growing Cultural...

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2013/01/16

We hear from several commentators on the possible loss of an East Vancouver music hub, and the City of Vancouvers response, as well as the impending eviction of the W2 Community Media Arts Society. We discuss more broadly the growing cultural deficit in the city and specifically the lack of all ages venues and how this should be remedied.

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The Working City: The Worker-Owned Cooperative and...

CiTR -- The City ·

2012/12/19

We continue our ongoing exploration of urban economies and the future of economic development by examining the worker-owned co-operative as a model for transforming our urban economies to achieve social, environmental, and economic justice. The City heads to Portland, Maine to hear about Local Sprouts, a worker-owned cafe cooperative and community kitchen, which works to put its workers and the community first by embracing the principles of socio-economic and environmental justice. We hear from

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