Planning

Laysa Abchiche Lima

Research Interests

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

Tolu Alabi

Research Interests

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

Christopher Alton

Research Interests

• Planning theory
• Resource extraction

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

Ruth Belay

Research Interests

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

Travis K. Bost

Research Interests

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

Felicity Campbell

Research Interests

• Critical planning studies
• Affordability, housing, land reform
• Community development

Mackenzie Ceci

Research Interests

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

Marty Chan

Research Interests

• Urban Planning & Urban Growth
• Inclusive Transport Oriented Development

Da Chen

Research Interests

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

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

Lucy Cui

Research Interests

• Urban and suburban regeneration
• Housing policy and affordability
• Public space design
• Mixed use and public-private developments

Ali Reda Darouiche

Research Interests

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

Adam Didycz

Research Interests

• Land Use Planning
• Gentrification
• Uneven Development/Critical Urban Studies
• Environment & Health
• Urban Economic Development
• Creative City Script
• Urban Food Security

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

Stuart Dow

Research Interests

• Active Transportation
• Urban Design
• Land Use Planning
• Participatory Planning Method
• Public Transit and Infrastructure Planning

Laura Dumbrell

Research Interests

• Sustainability and urban communities
• Affordable housing and mixed use communities
• Heritage conservation

Thomas Dybowski

Research Interests

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

Jason Farra

Research Interests

• Transportation planning
• Regional governance
• Suburban development
• Uneven development
• Critical planning theory

Simon Faux

Research Interests

• Transportation planning

Ellen Ferris

Research Interests

• Environmental Planning
• Sustainable Development & Land Use
• Climate Resilience

Laura Fylyshtan

Research Interests

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

Sean Grant

Research Interests

• Urban Land Economics, Planning, & Development
• Land Value Capture & Taxation
• Cultural Heritage & Urban Development

Katarina Graves

Research Interests

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

Jennie Greb

Research Interests

• Grassroots Planning
• Environmental Justice
• Critical/Marxist Theory
• Community-Based Participatory Research

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

Chris Humphries

Research Interests

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

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

Gemma Johnson

Research Interests

• Transportation
• Housing
• Equity
• Global Security
• Smart Cities

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

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

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

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
• Disruptive Technology and Innovation
• Sharing Economy

Hojoong H. Lee

Research Interests

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

Helen Loghrin

Research Interests

• Active transportation
• Property law
• Politics of planning and development
• Sustainable infrastructure development
• Architecture and urban design

Diala Lteif

Research Interests

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

Madeline Luker

Research Interests

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

Anson K. Ma

Research Interests

• Active Transportation and Transit Planning
• Suburban Modal Shift
• Public Consultation and Engagement

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

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

Keir Matthews-Hunter

Research Interests

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

Karina Maynard

Research Interests

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

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

Sabrina Musto

Research Interests

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

Kate Nelischer

Research Interests

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

Rebecca Nelson

Research Interests

• Sustainable transportation
• Green spaces
• Equability
• Community development

Pinremola O.

Research Interests

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

Natasha Petzold

Research Interests

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

Steven Pham

Research Interests

• Neighbourhood change
• Financialization and asset-based welfare
• Poverty reduction
• Tower renewal programs

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

Noha Refaat

Research Interests

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

Tim Ross

Research Interests

• disability studies
• active school travel
• transportation planning
• land use planning
• children’s independent mobility
• urban mobility
• planning theory
• planning policy and regulation
• inclusive design
• photovoice
• institutional ethnography
• qualitative research methods

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

Shannon Spencer

Research Interests

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

Andrew Tidswell

Research Interests

• Urban open space
• Sustainability
• Housing accessibility

Arno van Dijk

Research Interests

• Role of the urban planner
• Social media and urban planning
• Engagement in urban planning
• Advocacy in urban planning

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

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

Melinda Yogendran

Research Interests

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

Mischa Young

Research Interests

• Transportation behaviours
• Parking
• Public transit
• Urban sprawl

Merlin Yuen

Research Interests

• Multi-modal Transportation Planning
• Transportation Master Planning
• Innovations in Shared Mobility
• Urban and Transportation Design for Climate Change

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

Michelle Zhong

Research Interests

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