Planning

Laysa Abchiche Lima

Research Interests

• Urban Entrepreneurialism
• City Marketing
• Comparative Urban Policy
• Urban Renewal
• Urban Decline

Elise Antoniadis

Research Interests

• Planning’s place in counter-hegemonic practices to transform neoliberalization
• Radical democracy in the urban setting
• Right to the city
• Queer planning praxes
• Equity in community development planning

Christine Avery

Research Interests

• Climate and Environmental Justice
• Feminist and Queer Urbanisms
• Housing Policy/ Affordability
• Social Planning and Policy
• Community-based Planning

Demetra Barbacuta

Research Interests

• Urban health and healthy built environments
• Land-use planning
• Active transportation
• Placemaking
• Urban forests and green spaces

Ruth Belay

Research Interests

• Migration, Resettlement and Diaspora Communities
• Environmental Refugees and International Development Planning Strategies
• North Infrastructure Development for Indigenous Communities

Ajeev Bhatia

Research Interests

• Equity planning
• Resilient cities and neighbourhoods
• Systems theory and community development
• Community economic development, inclusive economies
• Social justice philanthropy

Asya Bidordinova

Research Interests

• Transportation planning
• Urban Mobility
• Cycling
• Policy Analysis: policy mobilities, policy transfer

Travis K. Bost

Research Interests

• Race & Political Ecology
• Politics of Infrastructure & Planning
• Nature-Society Relations
• Urban & Historical Geography
• U.S. Gulf South & Caribbean
• Climate Change Politics

Sarah Burrell

Research Interests

• Environmental planning and sustainable development
• Economic decline and urban revitalization
• Urban green space and the linkages to mental health
• Active transportation planning

Mackenzie Ceci

Research Interests

• Waste management
• Landscape ecology
• Nature-based solutions
• Utilizing GIS and remote sensing to approach planning-related issues

Da Chen

Research Interests

• Environmental planning
• Indigenous-non-indigenous relations
• Marine conservation and cities
• Public Space design
• Transportation and accessibility

Tash Cheong

Research Interests

• Equity planning and community economic development
• Political responses to the financialization of housing
• Social purpose and alternative enterprises
• Platform cooperativism and the online social economy

Ali Reda Darouiche

Research Interests

• Sustainable Communities
• Off-grid Communities
• Parks and Open Spaces
• Environmental Policy
• Political Ecology
• Urban Design
• Land Use Development

Ryan Doherty

Research Interests

• Sustainability
• Real Estate Development
• Complete Communities
• Housing Policy
• Land Use Planning
• Commercial Policy

Matthew Doren

Research Interests

• Smart Growth
• Urbanization
• Land Use Planning
• Affordable Housing
• Urban Design

Natalie Douglas

Research Interests

• Sustainable Development and Land Use
• Economic Decline and Revitalization
• Suburban Regeneration
• Active Transportation and Modal Shifts
• Decolonizing Planning

Thomas Dybowski

Research Interests

• Land Use Planning
• Housing and Real Estate Development
• Mixed Use Communities
• Urban Design

Laura Fylyshtan

Research Interests

• How regions adapt to economic change
• Transportation
• Affordable Housing

Shervin Ghaem-Maghami

Research Interests

• Migration, citizenship, and integration
• Community engagement and participation
• Critical theory and planning practice

Katarina Graves

Research Interests

• Environmental planning and policy
• Human-nature relations in the city
• Anthropocentrism
• Sustainability and climate resilience

Emily Huang

Research Interests

• Community-based planning and development
• Public engagement
• Public space

Chris Humphries

Research Interests

• Sustainable Community Development
• Transportation
• Integrated Transportation Planning
• Systems Thinking and Structured Decision Making

Abdul-Salam Ibrahim

Research Interests

Land governance; urban planning; political ecology

Joanna Ilunga-Kapinga

Research Interests

• Transportation Planning
• Vertical Housing
• Suburban Sprawl
• Belt and Road Initiative in the Global South

Nushrat Jahan

Research Interests

• Urban development
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Natural resource management
• Sustainability and resilience studies
• Disaster management
• Rural development
• South east Asia, Central and Western Canada

Sam Jones

Research Interests

• Transportation planning
• Transit information
• Land use and zoning
• Housing
• Spatial and geographic identities

Emma Jones

Research Interests

• Housing
• Sustainability
• Gender
• Participatory planning

Siobhan Kelly

Research Interests

• Politics of land development and urban space
• Land use planning
• Social infrastructure
• Equity-based placemaking

Thomas Kempster

Research Interests

• Inclusionary zoning
• Development exaction mechanisms
• Community ownership

Vanessa Kiley

Research Interests

• Indigenous Community Development
• Land Use and Development
• Urban Design
• The relationship between community development and public health

Hanna Kim

Research Interests

• Transportation Planning and Infrastructure
• Environmental/Sustainable Planning

Joanna Kocsis

Research Interests

• Knowledge co-production
• Decoloniality
• Anti-oppressive practice
• Arts based research
• Stigmatized communities
• Youth
• Leisure

Joanna Kocsis is an anti-oppressive, participatory research methods specialist and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Her research has inquired into the international development project from many angles, ranging from the learning practices of international development grantmakers to the role of psychological empowerment in the innovative behaviour of subsistence farmers in Central America. Most recently, she has been exploring the role of affect in the lived experiences of marginalized urban youth in Havana, Cuba. Generally, her work focuses on making visible and undoing systems that colonize and restrict the production of knowledge by communities that face oppression through transformative, participatory research, by offering opportunities for reflection, capacity development and social learning. Joanna worked held Research Award positions at the International Development Research Centre in 2012 (Innovation for Inclusive Development) and 2014 (Policy, Strategy and Evaluation) and has served as the Learning and Evaluation Specialist for the Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia Partnership since 2014. She has co-chaired of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion working group of the Canadian Evaluation Society since 2018.

Hojoong H. Lee

Research Interests

• Public Transportation
• GIS
• High-Density Development
• Metropolitan Areas

Katelyn Ling

Research Interests

Inclusive and equitable engagement; participatory planning approaches; urban food systems; asset-based community development; social policies, parks planning and environmental stewardship

Diala Lteif

Research Interests

• Displacement and forced migration
• Conflict and post-war cities
• Urban struggle and the production of space
• Everyday life of refuge
• Urban history

Madeline Luker

Research Interests

• Collaborative planning for healthy communities
• Active transportation
• Impacts of urban intensification on human health

Sneha Mandhan

Research Interests

• Public Space
• Urban Resilience
• Land Use and Zoning Regulations
• Urban Form and Morphology
• Community Engagement
• Cultural Landscapes

Rui Mao

Research Interests

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

Tyler Marr

Research Interests

• Active Transportation
• Land Use Planning
• Housing and Real Estate Development
• Mixed Use Communities
• Urban Design and Public Space

Justin Matthews

Research Interests

• Mid-Sized Cities
• Post-Industrialism
• Active Transportation
• Land-Use Planning
• Urban Development

Karina Maynard

Research Interests

• Active & public transportation
• Complete streets
• Mixed-use communities
• Sustainable development
• Placemaking and public spaces

Ewa Modlinska

Research Interests

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

Garrett Morgan

Research Interests

• Community Resilience
• Sustainable Transitions
• Climate Governance
• Climate Change and Global Health

Sabrina Musto

Research Interests

• sustainability
• community development
• e-waste
• human behaviour and space
• developing countries vs. developed countries

Paromita Nakshi

Research Interests

• Transportation equity
• Travel behavior
• Land use-transportation interaction
• Spatial analysis

Kate Nelischer

Research Interests

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

Pinremola O.

Research Interests

• Environmental management & infrastructure development
• Land use & transportation planning
• Planning & environmental law
• Sustainable development & resiliency

Aayesha Patel

Research Interests

• Retail gentrification in ethnic enclaves; Financialization of commercial real estate
• Toronto’s early colonial planning and street network development (1780-1900)
• Cycling infrastructure design;
• Transportation behaviour and psychology of mode shift;
• Barriers to cycling equity in diverse suburbs
• Zoning policy for employment and industrial uses; Planning for multiculturalism and places of worship
• Equitable transit-oriented development
• Social determinants of health
• Affective displacement and mental health impacts of gentrification

Pragya Priyadarshini

Research Interests

• Southern Urbanism
• Queer Crip Futures
• Migration and Displacement

Darian Razdar

Research Interests

• Global-local solidarity
• Queer urbanisms
• Anti-capitalism, social movements, liberation
• Democratic planning methods & alternative urban governance
• Phenomenological research methods
• Right to the city

Sarah Robertshaw

Research Interests

• Community Development and Mental Health and Harm Reduction Services
• Gentrification
• Spatial Inequality

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

Alexandra Simpson

Research Interests

• Real Estate Development and Affordable/Non-Profit Housing Models
• Land Use Planning
• The Privatization of Public Space and the Right to the City
• Urban Design and CPTED

Shannon Spencer

Research Interests

• Community development
• Immigration
• Inclusive Cities
• Land use planning
• Affordable and social housing

Chiyi Tam

Research Interests

• Conflict in Participatory Planning
• Equity in Public Engagement Design
• Organizational Trauma and Healing

Mark Tennenhouse

Research Interests

• Public housing
• Housing policy
• Real estate
• Community & Economic Development

Andrew Tidswell

Research Interests

• Urban open space
• Sustainability
• Housing accessibility

Marissa Irene Uli

Research Interests

• Inclusive Civic Engagement for Community Development
• Sustainable Community development
• Connected Communities and Grassroots Groups to Community Development
• Migration, Diaspora and Equity Seeking Community
• Indonesia, or South-East Asian cities

Dannika Van Vugt

Research Interests

• Housing Policy and Affordability
• Urban Sustainability and Climate Change
• Neighborhood Revitalization
• Community-Based Planning
• Sustainable and Equitable Food Systems
• Poverty Reduction
• Mixed Use Communities
• Social Justice and Access to the City

Travis Van Wyck

Research Interests

• Adaptive reuse
• Club culture
• Cultural planning
• Nighttime economies
• Subcultural scenes and spaces
• Queer geographies

Melinda Yogendran

Research Interests

• Food and agricultural systems planning
• Equitable food systems
• Community-based planning
• Poverty reduction

Michelle Zhong

Research Interests

• Urban sustainability
• East and Southeast Asian cities
• Community development
• Urban migration
• Economic globalization