Sergio Montero

As an alum of the 2018 SIEG in Ghent and now a local organizer of the 2026 Toronto edition, I can say this is an incredible opportunity for early-career scholars to learn, connect, and collaborate within the economic geography community.

Apply by Dec 22 and see you in Toronto next year!

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

On May 14, we’re thrilled to welcome Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) to the IIESL and to Toronto for a discussion of his research on conjunctural municipalism. He’ll be joined by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer (@skipfer.bsky.social), and Rachel Bok as discussants.

“Stories about urban change are often simplified, giving credit to a single mayor or policy, which is not usually the full story,” says Sergio Montero, Change Stories collaborator and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. @sergemont.bsky.social

CAUT, a voice for academic professionals 125 Canadian universities and colleges advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.

City Research Seminar: Dr. Ross Beveridge - The City Institute at York University (CITY) Seeing Democracy Like a City Urbanisation is changing landscapes, social relations and everyday lives across the globe. At the same time, urbanisation is also changing the ways democracy is understood...

JOIN US! March 31, 12 PM -1:30 PM "Seeing Democracy Like a City" with CITY's 2025 Senior Visiting Scholar Ross Beveridge @uofglasgow.bsky.social

With @sergemont.bsky.social and Peggie Kohn @utsc.bsky.social

To register: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...

Last year, the City of Toronto adopted some guiding principles for building an inclusive economic development framework. Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.

Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ

If you are in Toronto, join us on March 18 for a talk by Manuel Pastor (@profmpastor.bsky.social) on the rise of lithium extraction in California's Imperial Valley and the implications of electric vehicles on economic and environmental justice.

📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1

@marcelovieta.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @atkinsonfoundation.bsky.social @ntinavale.bsky.social @jasonspicer.bsky.social @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @carolinehossein.bsky.social @rkeil.bsky.social @luisasotomayor.bsky.social @alejandrabravo.bsky.social @benspurr.bsky.social

Last year, the City of Toronto adopted some guiding principles for building an inclusive economic development framework.
Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.

Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ

Toronto will ban U.S. companies bidding on city contracts in response to Trump’s tariffs, Olivia Chow says Chow confirmed that the city will award all contracts valued at less than $353,000 to Canadian companies exclusively. She also promised to present a motion to her executive committee "barring

Toronto will ban U.S. companies bidding on city contracts in response to Trump’s tariffs, Olivia Chow says www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

This is the first of a series of events that the IIESL is organizing this semester. Join us! Today, at #UofT #Geography & #Planning 4.30 pm

Excited to welcome Kendra Strauss to UofT on Feb 12 for a talk, “Understanding Precarity in British Columbia: Labour Regimes, Migration and Adverse Inclusion”. This research is part of her SSHRC Partnership grant with @policyalternatives.bsky.social

Register here (in-person only): shorturl.at/TzFUT

Are you thinking & writing about how geographers know and study the economy? The Economic Geography Research Group invites 'lightening talks' that think critically and creatively about the future of our subdiscipline.

See our CFP for the 2025 RGS-IBG Conference below👇 egrg.org/2025/01/21/c...

New paper on conjunctural analysis and radical municipalism and their affinities as two political methods for intervening in the conjuncture

Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co.

Just published open access in Environment & Planning F:
doi.org/10.1177/2634...

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Ciclovía y el Derecho a la Ciudad Móvil con Paola Castañeda Sur-Urbano · Episode

En el episodio inaugural de la 6ª temporada, hablamos con @pcastaneda_ sobre activismo ciclista, derecho a la ciudad móvil y el cruce del género en la movilidad. Exploramos su trabajo y la historia de la #ciclovía. 🚴‍♀️ buff.ly/4gSQMkq

Welcome!

First DigiLabour event of the year - and online! Book Talk with @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social on Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries. Jan 14, 4PM ET. Join us!
www.youtube.com/live/1XVLFCN...

Tesla Cybertruck Joins Short List of EVs Eligible for US Subsidy Tesla Inc.’s Cybertruck qualifies for up to $7,500 in US tax credits for the first time this year, part of reshuffling under tougher rules that took effect on Jan. 1 that also newly disqualify other e...

US tax credit for a new Cybertruck: $7,500

US tax credit for a new e-bike: $0

Bogotá’s Open Streets Program Is the Most Successful in the World. I Went to Find Out Why. If you ask a Bogotáno where they learned to ride a bike, they all have the same answer.

Last week, Bogotá celebrated its weekly tradition of opening 75 miles of streets to 1.5 million bikers, walkers, roller skaters, and more. Its lessons have made their way around the world.

Ciclovía at 50: Thinking cycling histories from Bogotá - Urban Cycling Institute Written by guest authors:Thomas van Laake, doctoral researcher at the University of ManchesterHenk-Jan Dekker, post-doctoral researcher at CIRED The early 1970’s marked a critical juncture in the hist...

Earlier this month, Bogotá's Ciclovía marked it's 50th anniversary.

In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org blog, @henk-jandekker.bsky.social and I reflect on what Bogotá tells us about cycling histories and futures: urbancyclinginstitute.org/ciclovia-at-...

In Toronto, public transit projects take forever to build and are perpetually delayed. The Eglinton LRT was supposed to open 2020 and has been under construction for 13 years. Crucial transit projects in Scarborough even lack basic budget commitments.

But the Gardiner Expressway? Ahead of schedule!

Yes, and before that (and before I lived here) I believe Toronto had an OpenStreets program twice a year since 2014
www.openstreetsto.org/about1-cinb

We need to bring it back! And not just twice a year. In Bogotá this is a weekly tradition. 1.5 million participants every Sunday.

(PDF) Worlding Bogotas Ciclovia: From Urban Experiment to International "Best Practice" PDF | “Best practices” are either celebrated as inspirational examples that can spur policy change and learning in other places or critiqued as... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...

The history of Bogotá's Ciclovía and how it became a world model is a fascinating story of how global and local ideas are grounded and mobilized through different networks of people, discourses, philanthropic organizations, study visits and viral videos. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Last week, I went to Bogotá to celebrate Ciclovía's 50th anniversary. Ciclovía is an amazing urban experiment that has helped redefine public space and bike use in Bogotá and inspired more than 400 cities worldwide.

@henrygrabar.bsky.social was with us and captured many of the conversations we had

A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space

blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...

🚨Trump now plans to "redirect money" away from EV rebates + charging stations" and into "national-defense priorities, including securing China-free supplies of batteries and the critical minerals to build them." In other words, more lithium mining but less electric mobility🧵

In #Toronto, a top-down anti-bike lane agenda is unfolding via a Provincial bill that undermines municipal planning and endangers lives—but @cycletoronto.bsky.social is fighting back. Please support!

This is only the beginning. Hundreds of people on bikes shut down Bloor x Royal York to condemn Ford, Sarkaria & Hogarth's attack on vulnerable road users. On a cold Nov Friday eve no less. You people are marvelous. They should tremble when our rubber hits the road. #BikeTO