Larry Bourne, Emeritus Professor

Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
Chicago
Other Degrees:
D.Litt (Hons) University of New Brunswick (2008)
DES (Hons) University of Waterloo Faculty of Environmental Studies (1999)
MA University of Alberta (1963)
BA (Hons) University of Western Ontario (1961)
Honours & Awards:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Massey Medal, Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2004)
Awards for Scholarly Distinction, CAG and AAG (1986)
Contact Information:
Phone: (416) 978-1595
Location: Room 5020, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George), Toronto ON M5S 3G3, Canada
Email: bourne@geog.utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- New urban forms and metropolitan development
- Canadian urban system, growth and change
- Urban social structure and new social spaces
- Intra-urban inequalities
- Urban revitalization and reurbanization
- Housing markets and neighbourhood change
- Planning and new cultures of regulation
- Comparative urban development and policyanalysis
- Urban governance: alternative models
- Communities at risk
Selected Publications:
- Bourne, L. S. 2008. On Schools of Thought, Comparative Research and Inclusiveness. Urban Geography 29: 170-184.
- Bourne, L. S. 2007. Understanding Cities: A Personal Research Path. The Canadian Geographer 51(2): 121-138.
Simmons, J. and L. S. Bourne. 2007. Living with Population Growth and Decline. Plan Canada 47(2): 13-21. - Bourne, L. S. and F. Hou. 2006. The Migration-Immigration Link in Canada’s Gateway Cities. Environment and Planning A 72: 1505-1525.
Bourne, L. S. 2006. Rescaling Urban Inequalities. In Urban Change at Different Scales, ed. R. Gonzalez, 65-78. Santiago, Spain. - Bourne, L.S. and J. Simmons. 2004. Urban Growth and Decline in Canada, 1971-2001. Research Paper 201. Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.
- Bourne, L. S., M. Bunce, L. Taylor, N. Luka and J. Maurer. 2004. Contested ground: the dynamics of peri-urban growth in the Toronto region. Canadian Journal of Regional Science XXVII: 251-269.
- Bourne, L.S. and J. Simmons. 2004. Urban Growth and Decline in Canada, 1971-2001. Research Paper 201. Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.
- Bourne, L.S. 2003. Elastic cities; inelastic governments: on urban growth and governance in Canada. Canadian Issues Feb. 2003: 14-19.
Bourne, L. S. and D. Rose. 2001. The Changing Face of Canada: the Uneven Geographies of Population and Social Change. The Canadian Geographer 45(1): 105-119. - Bourne, L. S. 2001. The Urban Sprawl Debate: Myths, Realities and Hidden Agendas. Plan Canada 41(4): 26-30.
- Bourne, L. S. 2001. Designing a Metropolitan Region: the Lessons and Lost Opportunities of the Toronto Experience. In The Challenge of Urban Government: Policies and Practices, eds. M. Freire and R. Stren, 27-46. Washington, DC: The World Bank Institute.