
Professor Karen Chapple is the Director of the School of Cities at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning. She is Professor Emerita of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where she served as department chair and held the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies. Chapple studies inequalities in the planning, development, and governance of regions in the U.S. and Latin America, with a focus on economic development and housing. Her recent books include Planning Sustainable Cities and Regions: Towards More Equitable Development (Routledge, 2015), which won the John Friedmann Book Award from the American Collegiate Schools of Planning; Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, MIT Press, 2019); and Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America (with… Read more
Meet the teams
Prentiss Dantzler
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Richard Florida
University Professor, Rotman School of Management
Marianne Hatzopoulou
Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Cara Krmpotich
Associate Professor & Director, Museum Studies Program
Fadi Masoud
Assistant Professor, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Kate Mulligan
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Nasim Niknafs
Associate Professor, Faculty of Music

Stanka Radovic
Associate Professor, Department of English, UTM
Daniel Silver
Professor, Department of Sociology, UTSC
Aradhya Sood
Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management & UTSC
Michael Widener
Professor & Chair, Department of Geography & Planning

Karen Chapple
Director

Ben Liu
Executive Director
Jeff Allen
Lead, Data Visualization

Taylor Brydges
Research Officer

Tony Chang
Communications Officer

Katherine Danks
Programs Officer

Felicity Heyworth
Senior Communications Officer

Trish McGrath
Director of Development

Lara Muldoon
Assistant Director, Strategic Partnerships and Initiatives

Galina Safonenko
Business Officer

Cindy Wong
Finance and Administration Officer
Mark S. Fox
Director, Urban Data Centre; Distinguished Professor, Urban Systems Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Eric Miller
Director, Mobility Network; Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Matti Siemiatycki
Director, Infrastructure Institute; Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
Elspeth H. Brown
Professor, Department of Historical Studies & Associate VP, Research, UTM
Beth Coleman
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information
Heather Dorries
Assistant Professor, Centre for Indigenous Studies & Department of Geography & Planning
Steven Farber
Associate Professor, Department of Human Geography, UTSC
Richard Florida
University Professor, Rotman School of Management
Mark S. Fox
Director, Urban Data Centre; Distinguished Professor, Urban Systems Engineering; Professor, Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Edison Gao
BA, Major in City Studies, Minors in Economics and Urban Public Policy & Governance, UTSC

Kevin Kuriakose Joseph
Master of Applied Science, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Sheng Liu
Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Management
Liat Margolis
Associate Professor, John H, Daniels, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design
Eric Miller
Director, Mobility Network; Professor, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering

Ramesh Pokharel
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mobility Network
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
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

Rebecca Alty
Canadian Urban Leader

Zahra Ebrahim
Urbanist-in-Residence

David Gordon
Visiting Professor

Kofi Hope
Urbanist-in-Residence

Don Iveson
Canadian Urban Leader

Chris Murray
Canadian Urban Leader

Chiyi Tam
Early Career Canadian Urban Leader

Amir Forouhar
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Cities

Yinnon Geva
Postdoctoral Fellow, Infrastructure Institute

Ramesh Pokharel
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mobility Network

Robert Stewart
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
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