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New paper published! The Dilemmas of Spatializing Social Issues
Urban Genome Project Members Fernando A. Calderón-Figueroa, Daniel Silver, and Olimpia Bidian’s paper discussing Toronto’s Priority Area Program (2006–2013) has just been published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Here’s Fernando’s summary: Among the multiple ways to subdivide a city, neighbourhoods are probably the most familiar to our everyday experience. It is not…
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New Paper: “The Space of Ideas: Public Art Policies and the Concept of Urban Model Spaces”
Noga Keidar and Dan Silver are excited to announce the publication of their paper in The Journal of Urban Affairs. As a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto Dr. Keidar was inspired to follow public art policies in order to examine the evolution of policy ideas and explain the mechanisms behind their…
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New City Research Insights Features UGP
The latest edition of the School of Cities City Research Insights features the Urban Genome Project. Below is a selection, you can read the whole piece here. “A multidisciplinary working group, established under the banner of theUrban Genome Project (UGP), is renewing connections between the life and physical sciences and the social sciences to decode the…
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Public-Spiritedness in the Metropolis
What place is there for public spiritedness in the metropolis? Here, public spiritedness is broadly defined as a sense of obligation to others, which is presupposed by a sense of community. This definition considers the humanity of others, even if they are strangers. It suggests that there is a spirit, a personal philosophy, that is…
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Upcoming Talk: Bernie Koch on The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cultural Change (As Told Through the Birth and Brutal, Blackened Death of Metal Music).
The Urban Genome Project at the School of Cities is hosting a talk next week by Bernie Koch on The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cultural Change (As Told Through the Birth and Brutal, Blackened Death of Metal Music). This talk will be of special interest to those in the sociology of culture and computational social science, though…
