Tammara Soma (planning, University of Toronto) investigates the factors that influence urban household food consumption and food wasting practices in Indonesia. She strives to make food system consideration (including sustainable food production, distribution, consumption and the management of food waste) essential to urban planning decision making. Ms. Soma is a Pierre […]

Drew Copeland is a Vancouver-based journalist. 

Jennifer Dean is an assistant professor in the School of Planning at the University of Waterloo where she teaches and conducts research on healthy and socially inclusive environments.

Filiz Tamer is a master’s student in Planning at the University of Waterloo, former co-president of the Association of Graduate Planners @UWAGP, and part of the the #GenerationedCity research team.

Avi Friedman is a professor and co-founder of the Affordable Homes Program at the McGill School of Architecture in Montreal, Canada. He is an author of 16 books and the principal of Avi Friendman Consultants Inc.

Richard Harris teaches urban geography at McMaster University. He has written about the history of housing, neighbourhoods and suburbs, especially in the 20th century. 

Alan Walks is a professor of urban planning and geography at the University of Toronto. He is the editor of The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility: Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics (Routledge 2015), and co-editor of The Political Ecology of the Metropolis (ICPR 2013).

Richard Florida is Director of the Cities Initiative at University of Toronto’s Martin Prosperity Institute and senior editor at The Atlantic where he co-founded CityLab. @Richard_Florida

SEAN HERTEL is an urban planner, who takes the road less travelled when it comes to his consulting practice. With any project, he infuses social justice into his passion for cities. Sean leads a Toronto-based professional planning practice specializing in land-use policy to support transit, intensification and housing affordability. He is […]