Planning

Tolu Alabi

Research Interests

• Transportation
• Social Housing
• Urban Design and Infrastructure
• International Urban Planning strategies

Christopher Alton

Research Interests

• Planning theory
• Resource extraction

Travis K. Bost

Research Interests

• Urban Political Ecology
• Politics of Infrastructure
• Nature-Society Relations
• Urban Theory
• U.S. Gulf South
• Climate Change Politics

Tammy Chou

Research Interests

• Community development
• Urban design and placemaking
• Affordable housing
• Social equity

Stephanie Cirnu

Research Interests

• Real estate development
• Land use planning
• Urban design
• Universal design and accessibility

Adam Didycz

Research Interests

• Critical Urban Studies
• Gentrification
• Uneven Development
• Environment & Health
• Planning Pedagogy
• Urban Economic Development
• Creative City Script
• Role of Art in Planning

Madeleine Hicks

Research Interests

• Feminist and decolonial planning praxes
• Planning as protest
• Commoning and anti-capitalist movements
• Placehood, land, and justice
• Equity in participatory and collaborative processes

Tara KamalAhmadi

Research Interests

• Transportation
  • Public Health

Kevin Kapenda

Research Interests

• Canadian-Indigenous Relations
• Place Naming/Toponomy
• Transportation
• Relationship between Sprawl and Isolation, Health and Community/Political Participation
• Race Relations, Politics of Difference
• Planning in the Developing Countries

Michelle Kearns

Research Interests

• Equitable suburban regeneration
• Regional transportation planning
• Placemaking and public spaces
• Active transportation

Robert Keel

Research Interests

• Housing Affordability
• Land Use Planning
• Social Housing
• Transportation Planning
• Municipal Finance

Tariq Khan

Research Interests

• Urban Design
• Environmental Planning
• Historic Preservation
• Sustainability

Raili Lakanen

Research Interests

• climate change and social movements
• environmental politics
• youth activism and community organizing
• sustainability planning

Hubert Lee

Research Interests

• Public Transportation
• Economic Development
• Affordable Housing

Diala Lteif

Research Interests

• Displacement and migration
• Conflict
• Social Justice
• Politics and space

Anson K. Ma

Research Interests

• Urban Planning and Development
• Happiness and Urbanism
• Transportation Planning
• Urban Design

Dani Magsumbol

Research Interests

• Social planning
• Planning in diasporic cities
• Creative cities in the Global South
• Immigrants and urban spaces

Julie Mah

Research Interests

• Social housing provision, housing policy and affordability
• Urban change and uneven development
• Planning for spatial justice

Rui Mao

Research Interests

• Urban Sustainability and Climate Change
• Urban Governance and Finance
• Transportation Policy
• Transportation Policy Implementation

Keir Matthews-Hunter

Research Interests

• Housing markets, policy, and affordability
• Neighbourhood decline and revitalization
• Land use planning

Amina Menkad

Research Interests

• Urban Design Choices
• Social Accessibility

Ewa Modlinska

Research Interests

• Municipal planning processes
• Neighbourhood revitalization
• Community and stakeholder engagement
• Urban renewal
• Community development
• Public-private-community partnerships
• Politics of planning

Kate Nelischer

Research Interests

• Gender and planning
• Designing cities for women
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Research Interests

Sustainable transportation, green spaces, equability.

Katherine Perrott

Research Interests

• urbanisms | suburbanisms
• Visioning as planning practice
• Canadian planning and development trends
• Transit oriented development, smart growth, and new urbanism
• Residential development and mortgage lending
• Advertising, marketing, and place branding
• Intersection of culture, economy, and policy

Natasha Petzold

Research Interests

• urban design as a tool to promote safer, healthier communities
• environmental planning and sustainable development
• positive and equitable social change

Research Interests

-Neighbourhood change

-Financialization and asset-based welfare

-Poverty reduction

-Tower renewal programs

Noha Refaat

Research Interests

• Architecture and Urban Development
• Community-based Planning and Development in Cities
• Urban Informality

Claudio Sarmiento-Casas

Research Interests

• Active transportation planning in Latin America
• Tactical Urbanism
• Pedestrian and vélo-mobilities
• Diversity in mobility
• Street design
• Road safety
• Mexican cities

Clara Shipman

Research Interests

• architecture and urban planning / urban form
• housing and community development / mixed-use and mixed-income projects
• social justice and access to the city / social and spatial polarization

Anna Shortly

Research Interests

• Sustainable and equitable food systems
• Agricultural development
• Community-based planning

Arno van Dijk

Research Interests

• Transportation
• Public Health

Holly Wacker

Research Interests

• climate resilience
• decolonizing planning
• right to the city

Nate Wessel

Research Interests

• Transit
• GIS
• Cartography

Ryan Whitney

Research Interests

• Non-motorized transportation planning
• Social justice
• Latin American urbanization
• Global policy transfer

JieLan Xu

Research Interests

• Built-environment
• Urban design and activity space
• GIS and spatial analysis
• Aging-in-place and age-friendly communities

Mischa Young

Research Interests

• Transportation behaviours
• Parking
• Public transit
• Urban sprawl

Will Zahn

Research Interests

• Public housing history, housing policy, affordability
• Urban segregation and geographies of ethnoracial identity/conflict
• Spatial analysis, cartography, data visualization
• Borders, territory, post-colonialism, nationalism

Austin Zwick

Research Interests

• Urban Decline and Revitalization
• Agglomeration Economies
• Regional Economic Growth
• Municipal Finance
• Statistical Analysis
• Energy Policy

Resource Boom to Revitalization: How does fracking affect patterns of urban decline and revitalization in the American Rust Belt?

Once-great industrial centers in the Rust Belt have been battling an ongoing struggle against urban decline for decades, but now some of them find themselves in a new natural resource boom. The technological innovation of hydraulic fracturing drilling, commonly known as ‘fracking’, has revolutionized global energy markets overnight but has been accompanied by a lack of understanding of its local economic impacts in the process. Some scholars find that agglomeration economies based on the fossil fuel extraction industry may provide a foundation for future economic growth even after the gas dries up, while others have shown that oil and gas extraction occurs in boom-bust cycles dependent upon international markets and therefore existing communities are better off by leaving the fossil fuels in the ground. This dissertation examines fracking’s effects on long-term economic growth through the (1) accumulation of human capital, (2) diversification of industry, and (3) municipal fiscal health of cities in the Rust Belt.