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ITE York U Seminar - Urban Planning
by ITE York University Student Chapter (Institute of Transportation Engineers)
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When: Thursday December 1, 2022 4pm to 5pm
Where: BRG 125
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Kipfer
Seminar In Transportation
Topic: Did Someone Say Free Transit?
Venue: Thursday, December 1 (04:00-5:00) pm EST, BRG125
Speaker: Dr. Stefan Kipfer, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Abstract:
Transforming all aspects of the transportation sector is crucial to tackle climate change. For this purpose, finding ways of disconnecting mobilities from fossil-fuelled modes of transportation is particularly vital. A current illustration: the decisions of a range of European governments to reduce or eliminate the cost of public transportation in response to the continent-wide energy crisis. These decisions are being made in a context where the demand for fare-free transit has become mainstream in various parts of the continent. During the last two decades, movements for free transit have emerged there and in other parts of the world. In a series of cases, these movements have led to fare-free transit policies. Reporting from years of engaging free transit debates in Europe and North America, this presentation unpacks demands for free transit and discusses their significance for the Canadian and Toronto contexts.
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Stefan Kipfer
York University
My research is driven by two basic, closely interconnected questions: What is the relationship between spatial organization, the social order and the exercise of political rule? And, in turn, what spatial and urban strategies can help us build the kind of political transformations we need to build a genuinely sustainable, egalitarian and radically democratic future for the planet?
My empirical research has focused on urban politics, urbanization and planning in transnational and comparative context. In various parts of Euro-America, including the global cities Zurich, Toronto and Paris, I have researched a range of urban social movements and their geographical imaginaries. I have investigated various forms of state intervention, from urban-regional planning, public housing and public transit to economic and environmental policy. Most recently, I have moved to research the rise of right-wing populism and neo-fascism as well as emancipatory responses to these far-right tendencies and regimes.
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