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Sergio Montero

@sergemont.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. Director, Institute for Inclusive Economies & Sustainable Livelihoods. (he/him)

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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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!
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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
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Toronto 2026 | Summer Institute in Economic Geography
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IIESL @iiesl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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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Change Stories @changestories.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“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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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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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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
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The City Institute @cityinstitute.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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...
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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...
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IIESL @iiesl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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
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Ben Spurr @benspurr.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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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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
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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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...
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CFP RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2025: Thinking creatively about futures for geographical research on the economy – Economic Geography Research Group
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Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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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Sur-Urbano Podcast @sururbano.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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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Ciclovía y el Derecho a la Ciudad Móvil con Paola Castañeda
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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...
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
US tax credit for a new Cybertruck: $7,500 US tax credit for a new e-bike: $0
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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...
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Slate @slate.com · 26/12/2024
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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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.
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Thomas van Laake @tvlaake.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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-...
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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...
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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!
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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...
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Ideational geographies workshop
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🚨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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Luisa Sotomayor @luisasotomayor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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!
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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
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Tom Kemeny @tkemeny.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
📣📣📣Talk Alert: Dec 4 12ET, I'll be speaking (online) about why we should care about place-based economic inequality, what it looks like today, and what we can do about it. If you're interested, sign up at the School of Cities' Knowledge Cafe - t.co/5n1fA3jPMK
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Scientists urge federal government to order assessment of Ontario's Highway 413 project | CBC News
A group of 120 scientists is asking the federal environment minister to order an assessment of Ontario's Highway 413 project over concerns about its potential environmental harms.
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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
👋 Hey Regional Studies folks (editors, authors, reviewers readers 😀)! We're here 🦋!@regionalstudies.bsky.social! RSA is putting together a Regional Studies Association Starter Pack ⬇️ Reply to @regstud.bsky.social to get added to the pack! Let's get organized!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/11/2024
Why are we talking about self-driving cars again — or robotaxis, as we now call them? Not because they’re about to solve all our transport problems, or even significantly replace existing road trips. It’s simply because AI hype is back — and AV makers are taking advantage.
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Roundup: The return of self-driving hype
Read to the end for a graph of Elon Musk’s real-time mental decline
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.
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Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Devika Dutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @cacrisalves.bsky.social). In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available :) ingridhk.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/6yyd...
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Obama and Biden had way more success stimulating fossil fuel production than entrenching green energy. They both gambled that supporting fossil fuels was politically necessary to sustain the green transition. And they both handed power to Trump. We have to learn from these failures.
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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The reviews are in. The professional associations representing Ontario’s engineers tinyurl.com/5n6tuxv5 urban planners tinyurl.com/ytj3xuc2 and traffic engineers tinyurl.com/276hzzxd have all come out opposed to Ontario’s proposed law to override local governments and rip out local bike lanes.
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Toronto’s Reference Library is my favorite library in this city. It’s a beautiful space and also a great reminder of how public services and infrastructure can be functional, inspiring and last for decades.
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Globalization and World Cities @gawc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We have extended our starter pack on global urban researchers and institutions... go.bsky.app/TU4z6Q4
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Sur-Urbano hasn’t made its way to BSKY yet, but here’s the latest episode of this fantastic podcast hosted by Isabel Peñaranda. In this episode, she and Pranav Kuttaiah engage in a thought-provoking conversation with Gautam Bhan on operationalizing social protection. open.spotify.com/episode/0rkN...
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What Do We Owe Each Other? Operationalizing Social Protections with Gautam Bhan
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
These days Toronto feels like the anti-model of contemporary urban planning: removing bike lanes, spending billions to rehabilitate a downtown highway, decommissioning an entire subway line, no opening date for a light rail project 13 years in the making. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Bikes v cars: backlash after Ontario premier threatens to tear up cycling lanes in Toronto
Doug Ford plans to rip out bike lanes on busy streets, citing ‘insanity’ of gridlock he says they contribute to
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
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Ideational geographies workshop
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Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Yet another starter pack... For all those interested in critical urban geography, broadly defined! go.bsky.app/RgsNWsi
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Bogotá’s Ciclovía has also been a source of inspiration for bicycle activists, citizen groups, planners and mayors in more than 400 cities worldwide. Its global spread is a fascinating story of local and global actors, networks, and agendas 🚴‍♂️ 🌍 #Ciclovia50 tinyurl.com/mrpv3wej
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(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...
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Roger Keil @rkeil.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Great piece on Rachel Bok's interurban research: The Problem with Mass-Produced 'Urban Solutions' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...
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The Problem with Mass-Produced ‘Urban Solutions’ | The Tyee
Geographer Rachel Bok investigates the deep-pocketed players setting the agenda for the future of cities.
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This December we will be celebrating Ciclovía's 50th anniversary in Bogotá. It will be a tribute to the citizen-driven and experimental roots of Ciclovía, which started on Dec 15, 1974 as a visionary response to the increasing dominance of car-centric urbanism 🚴‍♂️ 🌍 #Ciclovía50 tinyurl.com/4n38t96m
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Ciclovía 50 años: pasado, presente y futuro de las ciudades - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales | Universidad de los Andes Colombia
En diciembre de 2024 se cumplen 50 años de la Ciclovía de Bogotá. En el marco de esta celebración, buscamos llevar a cabo un encuentro para un público académico, practicante y ciudadano, nacional e in...
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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Ok, I will admit I’m a bit skeptical after the Mastodon exodus didn’t quite work out. And I’m definitely feeling the fatigue of yet another social media platform. But given the circumstances, let’s give BlueSky a shot. Curious to see who's here 👋
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