Richard Stren

Richard Stren

First Name: 
Richard
Last Name: 
Stren
Title: 
Professor Emeritus
Biography : 

He was Director of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies from 1989 to 2000 and Director of its successor, the Cities Centre from 2012-2013. Some recent publications: “The Challenge of Urban Governance” in Cities Transformed. Demographic Change and its Implications in the Developing World (2003); “International Assistance for Cities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Do We Still Need It?” Environment and Urbanization (October, 2008) “Globalization and Urban Issues in the Non-Western World: Searching for the Political” in Theories of Urban Politics (2009); and “Cities and Politics in the Developing World. Why Decentralization Matters” in Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics (2012).

Education: 
BA, University of Toronto
MESc, University of Toronto
MA. University of California, Berkeley
PhD, University of California, Berkeley

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Cities in the Developing World
  • Urban Politics in Canada
  • The Policy Process

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Richard Stren is Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.