The CHA in the City

Abstract

The last time York University welcomed the “Learneds” was 1969, and at that point the institution was perched on the distant edge of urban life next to functioning farms. Thirty-seven years later the urban frontier has moved far further out into the Ontario farmland, and the university is now surrounded by dense housing developments and is only a quick ten-minute bus ride to the subway. It seemed appropriate, then, for the CHA to take up this year’s Congress theme of “The City.”