Professor Emeritus
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Cities in the Developing World
- Urban Politics in Canada
- The Policy Process
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