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. In 2023, Chapple received the Regional Studies Association’s Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field.
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
Marianne Hatzopoulou
Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Aditi Mehta
Faculty Advisor, School of Cities India & Mixed Methods Workshop; Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Urban Studies, Innis College
Stanka Radovic
Associate Professor, Department of English, UTM
Tyeshia Redden
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
David Roberts
Academic Director, Multidisciplinary Urban Capstone Project, School of Cities; Associate Professor, Teaching Stream & Director, Urban Studies, Innis College
Karan Singh
Associate Director, School of Cities India; Professor, Department of Computer Science
Lindsey Smith
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
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
Gabriela Pawlus Kasprzak
Senior Education Officer
Ben Liu
Executive Director
Lara Muldoon
Assistant Director, Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives
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
Interim Director, Mobility Network; Professor, Department of Human Geography, UTSC
Mark S. Fox
Director, Urban Data Centre; Distinguished Professor, Urban Systems Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Nasim Niknafs
Co-director of the Creative Communities Commons; Associate Professor of Music Education, Faculty of Music; Associate Dean, Research and Coordinator of Music Education
Matti Siemiatycki
Director, Infrastructure Institute; Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Daniel Silver
Co-director of the Creative Communities Commons; Professor, Department of Sociology, UTSC
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
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
Prentiss Dantzler
Director, Housing Justice Lab; Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Heather Dorries
Assistant Professor, Centre for Indigenous Studies & Department of Geography & Planning
Steven Farber
Interim Director, Mobility Network; Professor, Department of Human Geography, UTSC
Richard Florida
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, School of Cities; University Professor, Rotman School of Management
Mark S. Fox
Director, Urban Data Centre; Distinguished Professor, Urban Systems Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Farzaneh Hemmasi
Associate Professor, Faculty of Music
Anita McGahan
University Professor and George E. Connell Chair in Organizations and Society, Rotman School of Management
Nasim Niknafs
Co-director of the Creative Communities Commons; Associate Professor of Music Education, Faculty of Music; Associate Dean, Research and Coordinator of Music Education
Chelsea Rochman
Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Laura Rosella
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health & Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Shoshanna Saxe
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Matti Siemiatycki
Director, Infrastructure Institute; Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Daniel Silver
Co-director of the 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
Tara Vinodrai
Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
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
Alexandra Flynn
Visiting Professor
Crystal Legacy
Visiting Professor
Diego Rotman
Visiting Professor
Thiago Silva
Visiting Professor
Zack Taylor
Visiting Professor; Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, UWO
Martijn van den Hurk
Visiting Professor
Amir Forouhar
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Cities
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