Geography & Planning
Alan Walks
Associate Professor and Acting Chair, Department of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Gentrification
- Housing and mortgage markets
- Housing policy
- Urban and Suburban Development
- Urban Political Geography and The Politics of Planning
- Urban social inequality among neighbourhoods
Office: 905-828-3932
Email: alan.walks@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Andre Sorensen
Professor, Department of Urban Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough, and Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Active Transportation Infrastructure
- Complete Streets
- Growth management
- Intensification and redevelopment
- Japanese urban history
- Public participation in planning
- Sustainable cities
- Urban development
- Urban sprawl
Office: 416-287-5607
Home: 416-532-1140
Languages: Japanese
Email: andre.sorensen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Beth Savan
Senior Lecturer (Emeritus), School of the Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science
Associate Graduate Faculty Member, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
Research Associate, Cities Centre and School of Public Policy and Governance
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Active Transportation and in particular cycling for transportation
- Institutional policy on sustainability
- Sustainability
Office: 416 -275- 4745
Mobile: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: French, some Spanish
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Carl Mitchell
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Contaminant transport
- Environmental Contamination
- Hydrology
- Mercury and methylmercury
- Water quality
- Wetlands
Office: (416) 208-2744
Mobile: 647-282-7627
Languages: Some French
Email: carl.mitchell@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Dan Lang
Professor Emeritus, Theory and Policy Studies in Education, Management and Geography
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Accountability and performance indicators
- Comparative analysis
- Economics of education
- Educational management and finance
- Funding formulas
- Quality assurance
Office: 416-978-1246
Mobile: 416-230-2684
Email: dan.lang@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Danny Harvey
Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1588
Home: 416-778-0670
Languages: French
Email: harvey@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Don Boyes
Director, Arts & Science Online Learning Academy
Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-1585
Mobile: 416-786-6396
Website
Email: don.boyes@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Emily Gilbert
Professor, Canadian Studies Program, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Borders
- Canada-US relations
- Citizenship
- Immigration and mobility
- Militaries and militarization
- Money and currency
- Security
Office: 416-978-0751
Website
Email: emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Harald Bathelt
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economic geography
- Economic globalization and international trade fairs
- Economic/Technology/Innovation policy
- German political economy
- Regional economic development and industry clusters
- Regional/National innovation and technological change
Office: 416-946-0183
Home: 416-597-2099
Languages: German
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jason Hackworth
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jing Chen
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Carbon neutrality
- Climate change
- Disturbance and forest management effects
- Forest carbon cycle
- Remote sensing and applications to environment
Office: 416-978-7085
Home: 905-755-9381
Languages: Chinese
Website
Email: chenj@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
John Robinson
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Academic/community partnerships
- Behaviour change
- Climate change
- Climate change mitigation
- Participatory community engagement
- Scenario analysis and futures studies
- Social and technological change
- Sustainability
- Sustainable Buildings and Cities
Office: N/A
Email: johnb.robinson@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Joseph Desloges
Professor
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Climate change
- Geomorphology
- Human-environment interactions
- Paleohydrology
- River processes and flooding
Office: 416-978-5782
Website
Email: joseph.desloges@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kenneth MacDonald
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cultural identity politics
- Culture and biodiversity conservation
- Environment and development
- Ethics and development
- Exploitation of mountaineering porters
- Kashmir
- Natural hazards and vulnerability
Office: 416-287-7294
Home: 416-466-2651
Languages: Balti
Email: ken.macdonald@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kristian Larsen
Sessional Lecturer
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Access to health care facilities
- Cancer prevention
- Environment and population health
- Food access/diet
- Geographic information systems (GIS)
- Health geography
- Physical activity; diet and obesity
- Transportation geography
Office: email preferred
Email: kristian.larsen@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Larry Bourne
Professor Emeritus
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Canada: managing growth and decline
- Form and sprawl
- Immigration and migration
- Neighbourhood change
- Social change in cities
- Urban growth
Office: 416-978-1595
Home: 416-486-7819
Email: larry.bourne@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Matthew Farish
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-6671
Website
Email: farish@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Matti Siemiatycki
Director of the Infrastructure Institute
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community and regional planning
- Congestion management
- Cycling
- Housing; Solutions for commercial vacancies
- Infrastructure finance and delivery
- Public-private partnerships
- Transit and commuting
- Transportation policy and planning
- Urban planning
- Urban transit
Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Michael Widener
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Emergency medical services transportation
- Food deserts
- Food environments
- Food insecurity
- Health and transportation
- Healthy food accessibility
- How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
- Urban planning and health
Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Pierre Desrochers
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Toronto Mississauga
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- (Over)population
- Economic development
- Environmental policy
- Environmentalist movement
- Food policy
- Population Growth and the Environment
- Science and technology policy
- Sustainable Development
Office: 905-828-5206
Languages: French
Website
Email: pierre.desrochers@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Romila Verma
Sessional Lecturer
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Climate Change Impacts on Water
- Desalination
- Environmental Education in middle schools and post secondary institutes
- Hydrology
- Water Management
Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-930-8659
Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu
Website
Email: romila.verma@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Ronald Buliung
Professor and Graduate Chair
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Access to education
- Child/youth education and disability
- City planning
- COVID-19 – telework; access to education; transportation
- Cycling/Bicycles
- Disabilities
- Food access
- Pandemic
- Telework
- Transportation
Office: 647-406-7460
Email: ron.buliung@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Sarah Wakefield
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community development
- Environmental justice/just sustainability
- Food access and security
- Food policy and food systems
- Social & Political Geography
- Sustainable agriculture
- Urban health inequalities
Office: 416-978-3653
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Susannah Bunce
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-287-7296
Website
Email: susannah.bunce@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
William Gough
Professor, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
Vice-Principal Academic and Dean, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
Office: (416) 287-7027
Email: william.gough@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
William Scott Prudham
Professor, Department of Geography & Program in Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor, School of the Environment
- Campus
- Department
Areas of Expertise
- Environmental politics
- Long term agrarian and political economic change in the wine sector; Languedoc (France)
- Natural resource extraction and natural resource management/policy
- Political economy and environment
- Social dimensions of environmental change
Office: 416-978-4975
Email: scott.prudham@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online