Garrett Morgan

I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto where his dissertation research applies an intersectional perspective on environmental justice in exploring the climate action plans of the world's "most sustainable" cities. Outside of academia, I am an urban planner and sustainable development consultant with professional experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors in rural, suburban, and urban environments in Canada and the US. I've worked primarily on issues of climate adaptation, housing, emergency management, multi-modal transportation, and environmental planning in declining cities and regions.

I currently serve as the Vice Chair, Board of Directors of the Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA), a leading not-for-profit organization committed to advancing the right to housing in Canada.

In the 2021-22 year, he taught/is teaching the following courses:
-GGR241: Geographies of Urban Social Exclusion
-JGU216: Globalization and Urbanization

Publications

Makaremi, N., Yadim, S., Morgan, G.T., Touchie, M. F., Robinson, J. & Jakubiec, A. (2024). Impacts of classroom environments on student wellbeing in higher education: Review and future directions. Building and Environment. Accepted August 2024. Doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111958

Jackson, S.F., Morgan, G. T., Poland, B., Gloger, A., Luca, S., & Cerda, E. (2023). Relationships are everything: Grassroots community action in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Toronto. Cities: International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning. Mar; 134:104163: Doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2002.104163

Morgan, G.T., Coleman, S., Robinson, J., Touchie, M., Poland, B., Jakubiec, A., Lach, N., MacDonald, S., & Cao, Y. (2022). Wellbeing as an emergent property of social practice. Buildings & Cities. 3(1): 756-771. Doi: 10.5334/bc.262

Poland, B., Gloger, A., Morgan, G. T., Lach, N., Jackson, S. F., & Urban, R. (2022). A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and formal institutions working together to build community-centred resilience. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18:10175. Doi:10.3390/ijerph181910175

Morgan, G.T., Poland, B., Gloger, A., Jackson, S. F., Luca, S., Lach, N., & Rolston, I. A. (2021). A connected community response to COVID-19 in Toronto. Global Health Promotion. September. 29(1):1-4. Doi:10.1177/17579759211038258

Haldane, V. & Morgan, G. T. (2020). From resilient to transilient health systems: the deep transformation of health systems in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Health Policy & Planning. 36(1):134-135. Doi: 10.1093.heapol/czaa169

Supervisors

John Robinson & Blake Poland