Karen Chapple, PhD, is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography & Planning and is cross-appointed as Professor in the Faculty of Information. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as department chair.
Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of cities and regions in the Americas, with a focus on economic development and housing. In 2023 Chapple received the Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field from the Regional Studies Association. Read more
Meet the teams
Nouman Ashraf
Special Advisor of Pedagogy, School of Cities & Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Rotman School of Management
Karen Chapple
Director, School of Cities
Gabriel Eidelman
Director, Urban Policy Lab; Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Institute for Management and Innovation
Meric Gertler
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, School of Cities,; Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; Professor. Department of Geography & Planning; Goldring Chair, Canadian Studies
Aditi Mehta
Faculty Advisor, School of Cities India & Mixed Methods Workshop; Co-director, City Community Research and Learning Collaborative ; Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Stanka Radovic
Associate Professor, Department of English, UTM
David Roberts
Academic Director, Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project, School of Cities; Co-director, City Community Research and Learning Collaborative ; Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Karan Singh
Associate Director, School of Cities India; Professor, Department of Computer Science
Nidhi Subramanyam
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Jeff Allen
Senior Research Associate; Lead, Data Visualization
Geoff Anhorn
Videographer
Tony Chang
Marketing & Digital Communications Officer
Katherine Danks
Program Officer
Kosta Diochnos
Knowledge Translation Specialist
Kathryn Exon Smith
Senior Research Officer
Austin Grant
Program Coordinator
Felicity Heyworth
Senior Communications Officer
Priya Perwani
Program Coordinator
Ben Liu
Executive Director
Lara Muldoon
Assistant Director, Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives
Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak
Senior Education Officer
Galina Safonenko
Business Officer
Serene Tan
Research Officer
Makda Teshome
Program Coordinator, Leading Social Justice Collective
Cindy Wong
Finance and Administration Officer
Michelle Zhang
Program Lead, Equitable Development Data Insight Training Initiative
Prentiss Dantzler
Director, Housing Justice Lab; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Gabriel Eidelman
Director, Urban Policy Lab; Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Institute for Management and Innovation
Steven Farber
Director, Mobility Network; Professor, Department of Human Geography, UTSC
Mark S. Fox
Director, Urban Data Research Centre; Distinguished Professor, Urban Systems Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Aditi Mehta
Faculty Advisor, School of Cities India & Mixed Methods Workshop; Co-director, City Community Research and Learning Collaborative ; Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Nasim Niknafs
Co-director, Creative Communities Commons; Associate Professor of Music Education, Faculty of Music; Associate Dean, Research and Coordinator of Music Education
David Roberts
Academic Director, Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project, School of Cities; Co-director, City Community Research and Learning Collaborative ; Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Matti Siemiatycki
Director, Infrastructure Institute; Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Daniel Silver
Co-director, Creative Communities Commons; Professor, Department of Sociology, UTSC
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
Matthew Adams
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Rohan Alexander
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information & Department of Statistical Sciences
Erica Allen-Kim
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Amy Bilton
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Marc Cadotte
Professor, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, UTSC
Victor Couture
Associate Professor, Rotman School of Management
Prentiss Dantzler
Director, Housing Justice Lab; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Heather Dorries
Assistant Professor, Centre for Indigenous Studies & Department of Geography & Planning
Gabriel Eidelman
Director, Urban Policy Lab; Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Institute for Management and Innovation
Steven Farber
Director, Mobility Network; Professor, Department of Human Geography, UTSC
Mark S. Fox
Director, Urban Data Research Centre; Distinguished Professor, Urban Systems Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Meric Gertler
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, School of Cities,; Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; Professor. Department of Geography & Planning; Goldring Chair, Canadian Studies
Tom Kemeny
Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
Aditi Mehta
Faculty Advisor, School of Cities India & Mixed Methods Workshop; Co-director, City Community Research and Learning Collaborative ; Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Nasim Niknafs
Co-director, Creative Communities Commons; Associate Professor of Music Education, Faculty of Music; Associate Dean, Research and Coordinator of Music Education
David Roberts
Academic Director, Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project, School of Cities; Co-director, City Community Research and Learning Collaborative ; Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Matti Siemiatycki
Director, Infrastructure Institute; Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Daniel Silver
Co-director, Creative Communities Commons; Professor, Department of Sociology, UTSC
Karan Singh
Associate Director, School of Cities India; Professor, Department of Computer Science
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
Laura Sullivan
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Cities
Daniyal Zuberi
Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work
Lisa Helps
Canadian Urban Leader
Courtney Walcott
Canadian Urban Leader
Kate Wong
Early Career Canadian Urban Leader
Lanrick Bennett Jr.
Urbanist-in-Residence
Nation Cheong
Urbanist-in-Residence
David Cooper
Urbanist-in-Residence
Zahra Ebrahim
Urbanist-in-Residence
Nadina Galle
Urbanist-in-Residence
Kofi Hope
Urbanist-in-Residence
Greg Lindsay
Urbanist-in-Residence
Jacqueline Lu
Urbanist-in-Residence
Carolyn Whitzman
Senior Housing Researcher and Adjunct Professor, School of Cities
Alpha Abebe
Visiting Professor; Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Lead, African and Black Diaspora Studies, McMaster University
Izabele Colusso
Visiting Professor; Professor, Architecture and Urbanism program, UNISINOS, Brazil
Abigail Friendly
Visiting Professor; Assistant Professor, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University
Diego Rotman
Visiting Professor; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theater Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thiago Silva
Visiting Professor; Professor, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná
Jake Wegmann
Visiting Professor; Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
Laura Sullivan
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Cities
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