Faculty
Faculty members (current and emeritus) are shown below. A list of selected faculty publications can be found in Section 8 of the Program in Planning Handbook.
For a list of Geography & Program in Planning staff, click here.
To see profiles of Program in Planning students, click here.
(* = Adjunct Faculty)
 Paul Bedford(MSc Southern Illinois University, 1972) FCIP, Transportation, regional governance, smart growth, community involvement  paulbedford@sympatico.ca |
| Alana B. Boland (PhD Washington, 2001) Environment and development, urban political ecology, China boland@geog.utoronto.ca |
 Larry
S. Bourne (Professor Emeritus)(PhD Chicago, 1966) FRSC, MCIP: Urban development policy, comparative urban systems, urban structure, social-spatial inequalities bourne@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| Don Boyes (PhD Western, 1998) GIS, remote sensing, fluvial geomorphology boyes@geog.utoronto.ca |
| John
N. H. Britton (Professor Emeritus) (PhD, LSE) Canadian industrial policy and development initiatives; impacts of technological change britton@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Ron Buliung (PhD McMaster, 2004) Activity-based approaches to travel analysis and modeling, travel behaviour response to the spatial organization of the modern city, transport-environment interactions and effects, geography of illness and disease, urban social and environmental issues, spatial analysis and GIS. ron.buliung@utoronto.ca |
| Michael F. Bunce (PhD Sheffield, 1970) Agricultural land use and policy in urban regions, rural settlement and planning bunce@scar.utoronto.ca |
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| Philippa Campsie (MScPl Toronto, 1994) Effective communications in planning, housing and homelessness, food security p.campsie@utoronto.ca |
| Jing Chen (PhD Reading, UK, 1986) FRSC: Remote sensing and geographical information systems, plant canopy radiation modelling, biophysical and biochemical parameters mapping, terrestrial carbon and water cycle modelling, watershed hydrology, and surface and planetary boundary layer turbulence chenj@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Tenley Conway (PhD Rutgers, 2004) Landscape ecology, land use/land cover change, environmental modeling, the structure and function of coupled human-environmental systems, environmental management tenley.conway@utoronto.ca |
| Deborah
Cowen (PhD Toronto, 2005) Geographies of citizenship, security, and war; Sub/urban political geography deb.cowen@utoronto.ca |
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| Amrita
G. Daniere (Graduate Chair and Chair, UTM) (PhD Harvard, 1990) MCIP: Urban development and environmental planning in SE Asia (esp. Thailand and Vietnam), urban environmental planning, housing markets in developing countries daniere@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Pierre Desrochers (PhD Montreal, 2000) Economic development, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, international trade, business-environment, business-university interactions pdesroch@eratos.erin.utoronto.ca |
| Miriam Diamond (PhD Toronto, 1990) Applied environmental chemistry, eco-toxicology of contaminants, mathematical modelling of physical systems; women in science and development diamond@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Richard J. DiFrancesco (Program Director, Innis College Urban
Studies Program) (PhD McMaster, 1995) MCIP: Canadian North, Northern energy policy, environmental modelling, regional economic models difrance@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| Matthew J. Farish (PhD UBC, 2003) The historical geography of the Americas; geopolitics and militarism; urban culture farish@geog.utoronto.ca |
| *John Farrow (MBA York, 1978) MCIP: Urban management and land economics |
| Harriet Friedmann (Professor) (PhD, Harvard University) Food Planning, urban agriculture, regional agro food system harriet.friedmann@utoronto.ca |
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| Gunter
Gad (Professor Emeritus) (PhD, Toronto) Office location and business linkages; historical geography of financial districts ggad@eratos.erin.utoronto.ca |
| Meric
S. Gertler (Vice Dean, Graduate Education & Research, Faculty of Arts
& Science) (PhD Harvard, 1983) FRSC, MCIP: Urban and regional economic change, regional innovation and learning, interaction between culture and economy gertler@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Emily Gilbert (PhD Bristol University, UK, 1998) Nation-states, colonialism and empire, globalization, money, borders, citizenship, social and cultural theory gilbert@geog.utoronto.ca |
| *Mitchell Goldhar (BA York, 1983) Commercial real estate planning and development, including land development, building construction and property management |
| Kanishka Goonewardena (PhD Cornell, 1998) Urban design, radical planning, critical theory, globalization, postmodernism and nationalism (Los Angeles and South Asia). kanishka@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| Jason Hackworth (PhD Rutgers, 2000) Urban and economic geography, political economy, inner city real estate investment jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca |
| Danny Harvey (PhD Toronto, 1986) Climate modelling, climatic change, energy and environment harvey@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Paul Hess (PhD Washington, 2001) Urban form, urban design, pedestrian travel, streets as public space, history of suburbanization and planning, and GIS analysis of built environments hess@geog.utoronto.ca |
| John R. Hitchcock (Professor
Emeritus) (PhD North Carolina, 1969) MCIP: Neighbourhood planning, housing and social policy |
| J. David Hulchanski (PhD Toronto, 1981) MCIP: Housing, community development, social policy, immigration |
| Mark
Hunter (PhD California at Berkeley, 2005) Uneven geographies of health, Aids, sexuality, political economy, development, Africa mhunter@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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| R.
Jaakson (Professor Emeritus) (PhD Waterloo) MCIP; Environmental planning; recreation and tourism |
| Thembela
Kepe (PhD Western Cape, South Africa, 2002). People-environment interactions, land rights, politics of development projects, southern Africa kepe@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| *Jack Layton (PhD York, 1984) Public administration, municipal government, public policy, housing and homeless, environment and energy |
| Deborah Leslie (PhD UBC, 1995) Urban-economic, cultural and feminist geography leslie@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Robert Levit (MArch. Harvard, 1986) Urban design and planning |
| Robert D. Lewis (PhD McGill, 1992) Historical geography, historical industrial labour markets, urban manufacturing from 1850 to 1950, North American cities lewis@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| Kenneth I. MacDonald (PhD Waterloo, 1995) International development, politics of biodiversity conservation, transnationalism, cultural politics, South Asia kmacd@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| Virginia W. Maclaren (Chair) (PhD Cornell, 1984) MCIP: Urban waste management, sustainable cities and indicators, environmental planning and impact assessment maclaren@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Minelle Mahtani (PhD University College, London, 2000) "Mixed race" identity, media and minority representation, critical journalism, women of colour in geography mahtani@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| *Stanley M. Makuch (LLM Harvard, 1972) Municipal government, economic analysis of law, legal aspects of land |
| Deborah McGregor (PhD Toronto, 2000) Aboriginal issues, environmental ethics, traditional ecological knowledge, forest management mcgregor@geog.utoronto.ca |
| D. Aidan McQuillan (PhD Wisconsin, 1975) Historical development of rural North America, historical preservation planning mcquilla@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Eric J. Miller (PhD MIT, 1978) Transportation planning; modelling transportation-land use interactions, urban transport emissions and energy consumption |
| John R. Miron (Chair, Social Sciences UTSC) (PhD Toronto, 1974) Location theory, migration and regional economic growth, demographic change and housing demand miron@chass.utoronto.ca |
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| Scott Prudham (PhD California at Berkeley, 1999) Political economy, the environment, social theory and nature, natural resource industries, environmental policy and regulation, the forest sector (particularly western North America) scott.prudham@utoronto.ca |
| Katharine N. Rankin (Director, Program in Planning) (PhD Cornell, 1998) Politics of planning and development; feminist and critical theory; culture-economy articulations; comparative market regulation; ethnographic methods; South and Southeast Asia rankin@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Edward C. Relph (PhD Toronto, 1973) Modern urban landscapes, urban form, place relph@scar.utoronto.ca |
| Susan Ruddick (PhD UCLA, 1991) MCIP: Urban/social planning, identity formation among marginalized (youth, immigrants), neighbourhood and community design, N. America and Europe ruddick@geog.utoronto.ca |
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| *Beth Savan (PhD London, 1979) MCIP: Environmental management, assessment and planning; environmental health and standards |
| Harvey Shear (PhD, University of London, 1972) Nutrient and contaminant fluxes in subtropical lakes; indicators of sustainability |
| Matti Siemiatycki (PhD Washington, 1997) Migration, Indonesia, feminist theory, critical development studies, Islam, and the politics of transnationalism siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca |
| Rachel
M. Silvey (PhD, UBC) Transportation policy and planning; infrastructure finance and delivery; community and regional planning silvey@geog.utoronto.ca |
| *Enid Slack (PhD Toronto, 1977) Public finance |
| Andre Sorensen (PhD London, UK, 1998) Urban Japan, land-use, suburban development sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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| *Zack Taylor (MScPl Toronto, 2002) Planning practice, urban design |
| Sarah Wakefield (PhD McMaster , 2002) Geographies of urban environmental health sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca |
| Alan Walks (PhD Toronto, 2004) Urban social and political geography, urban policy and neighbourhood inequality, urban form and political ideology, metropolitan governance, regional planning, housing and homelessness, geographies of social justice awalks@utm.utoronto.ca |
| J. B. R. Whitney (Professor Emeritus) joe.whitney@utoronto.ca |
| Kathleen Wilson (PhD Queen’s, 2000) Aboriginal health, access to health care, environment and health, neighbourhoods and health kathi.wilson@utoronto.ca |
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Professors Emeriti
J.
Dakin
W.
Michelson
A.
Simmons
R.
M. Soberman
