Sergio Montero
@sergemont.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Director, Institute for Inclusive Economies & Sustainable Livelihoods. (he/him)
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!
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
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
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
www.econgeog.net
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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!
Apply by Dec 22 and see you in Toronto next year!
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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
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
Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
www.econgeog.net
October 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
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
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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.
May 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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.
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“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
May 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“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
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CAUT, a voice for academic professionals 125 Canadian universities and colleges advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou
www.caut.ca
April 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
CAUT, a voice for academic professionals 125 Canadian universities and colleges advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.
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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...
With @sergemont.bsky.social and Peggie Kohn @utsc.bsky.social
To register: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
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...
www.yorku.ca
March 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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...
With @sergemont.bsky.social and Peggie Kohn @utsc.bsky.social
To register: www.yorku.ca/cityinstitut...
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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
Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ
March 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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
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
📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1
March 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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
📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1
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
Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.
Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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
Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty.
Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ
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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...
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
www.thestar.com
March 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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...
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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
Register here (in-person only): shorturl.at/TzFUT
February 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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
Register here (in-person only): shorturl.at/TzFUT
February 3, 2025 at 5:01 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
Register here (in-person only): shorturl.at/TzFUT
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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...
See our CFP for the 2025 RGS-IBG Conference below👇 egrg.org/2025/01/21/c...
CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025: Thinking creatively about futures for geographical research on the economy – Economic Geography Research Group
egrg.org
January 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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...
See our CFP for the 2025 RGS-IBG Conference below👇 egrg.org/2025/01/21/c...
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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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Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co.
Just published open access in Environment & Planning F:
doi.org/10.1177/2634...
🧵
January 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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...
🧵
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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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
Ciclovía y el Derecho a la Ciudad Móvil con Paola Castañeda
Sur-Urbano · Episode
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January 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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
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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...
www.youtube.com/live/1XVLFCN...
January 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/live/1XVLFCN...
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US tax credit for a new Cybertruck: $7,500
US tax credit for a new e-bike: $0
US tax credit for a new e-bike: $0
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...
www.bloomberg.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
US tax credit for a new Cybertruck: $7,500
US tax credit for a new e-bike: $0
US tax credit for a new e-bike: $0
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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.
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.
slate.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:57 PM
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.
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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 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-...
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...
urbancyclinginstitute.org
December 26, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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 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!
But the Gardiner Expressway? Ahead of schedule!
December 23, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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!
But the Gardiner Expressway? Ahead of schedule!
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
@henrygrabar.bsky.social was with us and captured many of the conversations we had
I went on a pilgrimage to the birthplace of the open streets movement. Here's what I learned: slate.com/business/202...
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.
slate.com
December 22, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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
@henrygrabar.bsky.social was with us and captured many of the conversations we had
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Big RSA welcome to Carlos Cadena-Gaitan, Associate Professor of Policy and Development at EAFIT University, as the @regstud.bsky.social ambassador to Colombia. www.regionalstudies.org/news/welcome...
Welcome to our new Colombia Ambassador - RSA Main
The RSA is pleased to announce the appointment of a new RSA Ambassador to Colombia. We would like to welcome Carlos Cadena-Gaitan, Associate Professor of Policy and Development at EAFIT University. C...
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December 16, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Big RSA welcome to Carlos Cadena-Gaitan, Associate Professor of Policy and Development at EAFIT University, as the @regstud.bsky.social ambassador to Colombia. www.regionalstudies.org/news/welcome...
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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...
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
Ideational geographies workshop
blogs.ubc.ca
December 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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...
blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
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🚨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🧵
December 16, 2024 at 8:40 PM
🚨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🧵
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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 morning, Cycle Toronto launched a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Section 7 challenge to the provincial government’s Bill 212.
The lawsuit also seeks an immediate injunction to prevent the removal of target bike lanes on Bloor, University, and Yonge.
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The lawsuit also seeks an immediate injunction to prevent the removal of target bike lanes on Bloor, University, and Yonge.
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December 12, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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!