Outline: Alan Walks
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Associate Professor PhD University of Toronto (2004) MA (Planning) University of Waterloo (1998) BA Dalhousie University (1993) Phone: (905) 828-3932 Location: Room SB2113E (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: alan.walks@utoronto.ca |
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| Research Interests |
| Urban Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization |
| Urban Policy and Neighbourhood Inequality |
| Neighbourhood Effects and Political Ideology |
| Politics of Automobility |
| Urban Debtscapes |
| Electoral Geography |
| Gentrification |
| Gated Communities |
| Selected Publications |
| Walks, R. Alan (2011) Economic Restructuring and Trajectories of Socio-spatial Polarization in the Twenty-First-Century Canadian City, in L.S. Bourne, T. Hutton, R. Shearmur, and J. Simmons (Eds.) Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change. Oxford University Press. |
| Walks, R. Alan (2011) Bailing Out the Wealthy: Responses to the Financial Crisis, Ponzi Neoliberalism, and the City. Human Geography. 3 (3): 54-84 |
| Walks, R. Alan (2010) New Divisions: Social Polarization and Neighbourhood Inequality in the Canadian City, in Bunting, T.E., Filion, P. and Walker, R. (Eds.), Canadian Cities in Transition: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford University Press. |
| Walks, R.A. (2010) Electoral behaviour behind the gates: Partisanship and political participation among Canadian gated city residents. Area. 42 (1), 7-24 |
| Walks, R.A. (2009) The urban in fragile, uncertain, neoliberal times: Towards new geographies of social justice? Canadian Geographer. 53 (3), 345 - 356 |
| Walks, R. Alan and August, M. (2008) The Factors Inhibiting Gentrification in Areas with Little Non-market Housing: Policy Lessons from the Toronto Experience. Urban Studies 45 (12): 2594-2625 |
| Walks, R. Alan and Maaranen, R. (2008). The Timing, Patterning and Forms of Gentrification and Neighbourhood Upgrading in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver 1961 to 2001. Toronto: University of Toronto Cities Centre Research Paper 211. |
| Walks, R. Alan and R. Maaranen. (2008). Gentrification, Social Mix, and Social Polarization: Testing the Linkages in Large Canadian Cities. Urban Geography 29(4): 293-326. |
| Walks, R. Alan. (2008). Urban Form, Everyday Life, and Ideology: Support for Privatization in Three Toronto Neighbourhoods. Environment and Planning A 40(2): 258-282. |
| Walks, R. Alan. (2007). From Suburbanization to Super-Regions: The Political Challenge Facing Canadian Metropolitan Areas and Their Central Cities. Plan Canada 47(3): 19-24. |
| Walks, R. Alan. (2007). The Boundaries of Suburban Discontent? Urban Definitions and Neighbourhood Political Effects. Canadian Geographer 51(2): 160-185. |
| Walks, R. Alan. (2006). Aestheticization and the Cultural Contradictions of Neoliberal (sub)Urbanism. Cultural Geographies 13(3): 466-475. |
| Walks, R. Alan. (2006). Homelessness, Housing Affordability and the New Poverty. In Canadian Cities in Transition, eds. T. E. Bunting and P. Filion, 419-437. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
| Walks, R. A. (2006). The Causes of City-Suburban Political Polarization? A Canadian Case Study. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96(2): 390-414. |
| Walks, R. A. and L. S. Bourne. (2006). Ghettos in Canada's Cities? Racial Segregation, Ethnic Enclaves and Poverty Concentration in Canadian Urban Areas. Canadian Geographer 50(3): 273-297. |
| Walks, R. A. (2005). City-Suburban Electoral Polarization in Great Britain, 1950-2001. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30(4): 500-517. |
| Walks, R. A. (2005). The City-Suburban Cleavage in Canadian Federal Politics. Canadian Journal of Political Science 38(2): 383—413. |
| Walks, R. A. (2004). Place of Residence, Party Preferences, and Political Attitudes in Canadian Cities and Suburbs. Journal of Urban Affairs 26(3): 269–295. |
| Walks, R. A. (2004). Suburbanization, the Vote, and Changes in Federal and Provincial Political Representation and Influence between Inner Cities and Suburbs in Large Canadian Urban Regions, 1945 to 1999. Urban Affairs Review 39(4): 411–440. |
| Bunting, T., R. A. Walks and P. Filion. (2004). The Uneven Geography of Housing Affordability Stress in Canadian Metropolitan Areas. Housing Studies 19(3): 361-393. |
