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[1]Dissertation
As more and more capital circulates through built environments in search for profit, and less capital is invested in manufacturing activities, the urban process takes on an important dimension in post-industrial cities like Toronto, not only for the reproduction of capital, but also for the reproduction of labour. To shape the urban environment in for workers beneficial ways, increasingly requires to engage in the politics of urban (re)development and highlights the importance of the mediating role urban planners can play, particularly when (re)development projects are adjudicated at quasi-judicial tribunals like the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). Despite the importance of the OMB in regulating urbanization processes, the question as to whether or not this tribunal represents a leverage point for progressive social forces remains under-examined. While a number of authors have carried out research into the history of the OMB, its administration of land use planning, its scope of powers and its jurisdictions (Adler, 1971; Chipman, 2002; Krushelnicki, 2007), only one notable book length study exists that investigates the role of the OMB in the politics of urban development in Toronto (Moore, 2013). Yet, while this study provides much insight into how developers, city councillors, planning experts and community groups engage in urban development politics in relation to the OMB, Moore’s view that “[t]he board effectively removes actual planning decisions from the realm of the entirely political by exalting the role of planning experts” (p. 184), reproduces the assumption that state and civil society are two separate spheres and that the OMB can shield planning decisions from political pressures. My dissertation cuts into the opposite direction. It highlights that the OMB does not exist outside the “realm of the entirely political,” and argues that precisely for this reason progressive social forces can engage the OMB in a political struggle from a number of positions irreducible to the actual hearing itself.
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EDUCATION
Since 2008
PhD Candidate
York University, Toronto
2006
Master of Environmental Studies
York University,
Toronto
2002
Bachelor (Equivalent) in
Urban Planning
University of Dortmund, Germany
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015
Lecturer: City Politics. Department of Human
Geography: City Studies Program, University of Toronto Scarborough
2015
Lecturer: Planning and Governing the
Metropolis. Department of Human Geography, City Studies Program,
University of Toronto Scarborough
2015
Lecturer:
The Process of Urban Politics: Issues, Institutions and
Ideology. Department of Political Science, York University
2014
Teaching Assistant: Sustainable Urbanism:
Environmental Planning and Design. Course Instructor: Dr. Sam
Benvie, York University
2013
Lecturer: Political
Ecology of Landscape. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York
University.
2012
Lecturer: Political Ecology of
Landscape. Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
2012
Guest Lecture: “Compact City Planning and
the Amsterdam Extension Plan of 1935.” In Foundations of
Urban and Regional Environments. Friday, February 17, 2012
2011
Lecturer: Urban Development Processes.
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
2010
Guest Lecture: “Labour’s Agency and the Production of Space.”
In Creativity and Cities in Urban Politics and Planning.
Wednesday, 27, 2010
2009
Guest Lecture: “New-built
Gentrification: Toronto’s Condominium Boom.” In
Foundations of Urban and Regional Environments. Friday, April
17, 2009
2009
Walking Tour and Discussion:
“Gentrification in Liberty Village, Toronto. In Urban
Development Processes. Wednesday, February 11, 2009
2009-13
Teaching Assistant: Foundations of Urban and
Regional Environments. Planning, Analysis, and Design.
Course Instructor: Dr. Stefan Kipfer, York University
2007-08
Research Coordinator: “Urban Images, Public Space
and the Privatization of Toronto.” Principal Investigator: Dr.
Ute Lehrer, York University
PUBLICATIONS
Wieditz, T. (forthcoming). Fixing Capital to Protect
“Nature:” Urban Industrial Lands and Growth Management in Ontario.
Environment and Planning A
Wieditz, T. (forthcoming). Film Unions Struggle to Defend Studio
Space in Toronto. In I.T. MacDonald (Ed.) Labour in the New
Urban Economy
Figueroa, M., Gray, L. and T. Wieditz (forthcoming). Introduction:
Labor in the Creative City. In I.T. MacDonald (Ed.) Labor in
the New Urban Economy
Figueroa, M., Gray, L. and T. Wieditz. Introduction: Labor in
the Creative City. In I.T. MacDonald (Ed.) Labor in the New Urban
Economy
Wieditz, T. (2014). Review of Reshaping
Toronto’s Waterfront (by Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley),
Urban Studies Journal
Kipfer, S., Saberi, P. and
T. Wieditz (2012). Henri Lefebvre. Debates and Controversies.
Progress in Human Geography
Kipfer, S., Saberi, P.
and T. Wieditz (2012). Henri Lefebvre. In F. Eckardt (Ed.),
Handbuch Stadtsoziologie. Vs Verlag für
Sozialwissenschaften
Wieditz, T. (2010). Gentrifizierung Im
Stadtteil Liberty Village In Toronto. In I. Mertens & K. Usunov
(Eds.), Raumplanerinnen im Ausland. Dortmund: Institut für
Raumplanung (IRPUD) Universität Dortmund
Lehrer, U. and T.
Wieditz (2009). Condominium Development And Gentrification: The
Relationship between Policies, Building Activities and Socio-Economic
Development in Toronto. Canadian Journal of Urban
Research 18(1): 140-60
Lehrer, U. and T. Wieditz
(2009). Gentrification and The Loss of Employment Lands: Toronto’s
Studio District. Critical Planning 16: 138-60
Wieditz, T. and U. Lehrer (2008). Big Box Bitter Battle: Opposing
the Impoverishment of Ontario. In: RC21. The research committee for
the 21 century. Sociology of Urban and Regional Development.
International Association. July 2008
Wieditz, T.
(2007) Liberty Village - The Makeover of Toronto’s King and Dufferin
Area. In: Research Bulletin #32, Centre for Urban and Community
Studies, University of Toronto
EXHIBITIONS
Lehrer, U. and T. Wieditz (2009).
“Strip-mining for Creative Cities.” Toronto Free Gallery.
Photographic Contributions. January 15 to March 1, 2009.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Wieditz, T. (2014) “The Relationship Between Industrial Lands in
the City of Toronto And Urban Containment Policies.” Paper presented
at the 3rd Annual Conference of the International Graduate
Research Program: Metropolitan Temporalities. Berlin, Germany.
November 20-22, 2014
Wieditz, T. (2014) “Film Unions
Fighting for Space.” Paper presented at The Canadian Association
for Work and Labour Studies. St. Catharines, Canada. May 29, 2014
Wieditz, T (2013) “Don’t Let The Condo’s Eat My Job:
From the Production of Cookies to the Production of Space.” Paper
presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of the International
Graduate Research Program: Empire, City, Nature. Toronto, Canada.
May 31, 2013
Wieditz, T (2013) “From a Socio-Ecological
Fix in the “Country” to Labours’ Spatial Fix in “Town:”
Condos, Cookies and Speculative Pressures in Toronto.” Paper
presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Los Angeles, CA. April 10, 2013
Nugent,
J. and T. Wieditz (2013) “Fighting to Protect Employment Lands:
Recent Labour-Community Struggles in the City of Toronto.” Paper
presented at The United Association for Labour Education.
Toronto, Canada. April. 17-20, 2013
Wieditz, T (2012)
Roundtable Discussion: Urban Renewal and Citizen Protest.
Urban-Activism-Scholarship: Global Discourses in Local, Historical and
Contemporary Contexts. 1st Annual Conference of the
International Graduate Research Program. Berlin, Germany.
November 2, 2012
Wieditz, T (2011) “Transcending the
Regulation Approach? The role of the sensuous human body, everyday
life and space.” Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA. April 14,
2011
Wieditz, T (2010) “Where Regulation Theory meets
Labour Geography: The case of the South of Eastern District.” Paper
presented at the Second Annual FES PhD Research Matters
Symposium. Toronto, Canada. November 25, 2010
Lehrer,
U. and T. Wieditz (2009) “Spatial Politics In Toronto:
Community Groups Fighting Back.” Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas,
NV. March 24, 2009
Wieditz, T. and U. Lehrer (2008)
“Walmart And The Gentry: The Fight For ‘Good Jobs’, Working
Class Space and Sustainable Urban Development in Toronto’s Inner
City.” Paper presented at the 15th Annual Critical
Geography Conference. Athens, Ohio. October 3-4, 2008
Lehrer U. and T. Wieditz (2008) “Accelerated Gentrification:
Toronto’s Condominium Boom.” Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA.
April 15, 2008
Lehrer, U. and T. Wieditz (2007) ”The New
Gentrification: Toronto’s Condominium Boom.” Paper presented by
Ute Lehrer at the Conference: New-build Gentrification. Forms,
Places and Processes. Neuchatel, Switzerland. November 15,
2007
MEMBERSHIPS
Canadian
Association for Work and Labour Studies (CAWLS) since 2014
The
City Institute at York University (CITY) since 2012
Association
of American Geographers (AAG)since 2007
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