Roger Wedge

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Roger H. Keil (* 1957 ) is a German-Canadian political scientist and urban researcher . He is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He is also director of the City Institute and director of the Canadian Center for German and European Studies at York University in Toronto.

Life

Keil's research essentially deals with processes of urban development, especially in the context of negotiation processes for the political control of global cities . Since the 1990s he has also been concerned with the global phenomenon of suburbanization and the concept of the in- between cities . In the early 2000s, he expanded his research to include the relationships between global cities and the spread of infectious diseases . Keil has always carried out numerous researches on political ecology , influenced by his chair at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University . Roger Keil is co-founder of the International Network for Urban Research and Action INURA and co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Fonts

  • Keil, Roger (ed. With Douglas Young and Patricia B. Wood) (2011): In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability. Praxis (e) Press, Kelowna, BC. ISBN 978-0-9865387-5-9
  • Keil, Roger (ed. With Rianne Mahon) (2009): Leviathan Undone? Towards a Political Economy of Scale. UBC Press, Vancouver. ISBN 9780774816311
  • Keil, Roger (with Julie-Anne Boudreau and Douglas Young) (2009): Changing Toronto: Governing Urban Neoliberalism. UTP, Toronto. ISBN 9781442600935
  • Keil, Roger (ed. With Harris Ali) (2008): Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City. Wiley-Blackwell Studies in Urban and Social Change Series, Oxford. ISBN 1405161345
  • Keil, Roger (ed. With N. Brenner) (2006): The Global Cities Reader. Routledge. ISBN 9780415323451
  • Keil, Roger (with G. Desfor) (2004): Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles. University of Arizona Press, Nature and Society Series, Tucson. ISBN 0816523738
  • Keil, Roger (2001): Weltstadt. City of the world. Internationalization and Local Politics in Los Angeles. Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster. ISBN 3-924550-76-X

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SURNAME Wedge, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedge, Roger H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Canadian political scientist and urban researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1957