School of Cities

Amer Shalaby

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Intelligent transportation systems with emphasis on advanced public transit systems
Public transit planning and operations
Simulation and modelling of transportation systems
Transportation planning of large-scale events and mega cities

Office: (416) 978-5907
Website
Email: amer@ecf.utoronto.ca
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Beth Savan

Senior Lecturer Emeritus/Emerita

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Arts and Science
Department
- School of the Environment
Centres
- School of Cities
- School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

Active Transportation and in particular cycling for transportation
Institutional policy on sustainability
Sustainability

Office: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: English,French,Spanish - Latin American
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
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Enid Slack

Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

COVID-19 - Financial impact on municipalities
Intergovernmental transfers
Municipal finance - revenues and expenditures of municipal governments
Municipal restructuring
New sources of municipal revenue
Property tax reform
Property tax, property tax reform, intergovernmental transfers, user fees, new sources of municipal revenue
User fees

Office: 416-946-0328
Email: enid.slack@utoronto.ca
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Greg Evans

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Air pollution in large cities
Airborne particles
Climate change
Development and application of high time resolution instruments for field studies
Emissions of pollutants
Engineering education
Exposure of urban populations to traffic related air pollutants
Impact of aerosols on health and environment
Quality and composition of urban air
Receptor modeling for sources identification and characterization

Office: 416-978-1821
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: greg.evans@utoronto.ca
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Harald Bathelt

Professor

Areas of Expertise

Economic geography
Economic globalization and international trade fairs
Economic, technology and innovation policy
German political economy
Industrial clusters and regional economic development
Inter-regional inequality and connectivity
Knowledge creation and innovation over distance
Regional and national innovation and technological change
Regional impacts of foreign direct investments
Socioeconomic impacts of regional industrial and institutional change

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-890-1705
Languages: German,English
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
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Jason Hackworth

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Arts and Science
Department
- Geography and Planning
Centres
- Centre for the Study of the United States
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

American cities
Detroit
Urban decline

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
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Kate Mulligan

Assistant Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Applied public policy
Climate and health
Community development
Community governance and partnership
Community health and wellbeing
Comprehensive primary health care
Development and well-being
Discourses of health
Ecological public health
Government relations
Health equity
Healthy cities
India crisis & global health inequity
Place-based policymakingIndigenous
Political ecologies of community health and wellbeing
Public health policy
Social prescribing

Office: N/A
Website
Email: kate.mulligan@utoronto.ca
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Kathleen Gallagher

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Department
- Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Centres
- Centre for Drama, Theatre and Peformance Studies
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Applied Theatre
Arts education
Documentary Theatre
Ethnographic research
Gender and schooling
Urban schooling
Youth studies

Office: 416-978-0160
Home: 416-960-5633
Mobile: 416-960-5633
Languages: English,French
Website
Email: kathleen.gallagher@utoronto.ca
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Khandker Nurul Habib

Professor

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
Department
- Civil and Mineral Engineering
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Activity-Based Modelling
Choice Modelling
Integrated Land Use and Transportation Modelling
Survey Design, Stated Preference (SP) Experiment
Transport Policy and Transport Economics
Transportation in Developing Countries
Transportation planning
Travel demand modelling

Office: 416-946-8027
Languages: English
Website
Email: khandker.nurulhabib@utoronto.ca
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Larry Bourne

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

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
Mobile: 416-486-7819
Website
Email: bourne@geog.utoronto.ca
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Matti Siemiatycki

Professor

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: matti.siemiatycki@utoronto.ca
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Paolo Granata

Professor in Book and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

Campus
- St. George
Faculty
- Faculty of Arts and Science
Department
- Italian Studies
Centres
- Media Ethics Lab
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Digital literacy
Italian politics
Marshall McLuhan
Media ecology
Media Ethics
Philosophy of technology
Sustainable Development Goals
Toronto Creative City

Office: 416-926-2288
Mobile: 647 550 6513
Languages: Italian
Website
Email: paolo.granata@utoronto.ca
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Patricia Landolt

Professor

Campus
- U of T Scarborough
Department
- Sociology
Centres
- School of Cities

Areas of Expertise

Global migration
Non/citizenship
Precarious legal status

Office: 416-287-7156
Languages: Spanish - Latin American,French,Portuguese
Website
Email: p.landolt@utoronto.ca
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