Governing Cities Through Regions

Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. A former director of York's City Institute, he researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, and regional governance. He is the editor of Suburban Constellations (2013) and co-editor (with Pierre Hamel) of Suburban Governance: A Global View (2015).

Pierre Hamel is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the Université de Montréal. He is affiliated with CÉRIUM at the same university. His research interests focus on three themes: 1) urban policies; 2) collective action; 3) institutional regulation of social and economic inequalities. He has published extensively on social movements, urban politics, governance and local democracy. He is the editor of the journal Sociologie et sociétés.

Julie-Anne Boudreau has her doctorate of Urban Planning from UCLA. Professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, she held the Canada Research Chair in urbanity, insecurity, and political action from 2005-2015 and was editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) from 2010 to 2015. Her most recent book is Global Urban Politics (2016).

Stefan Kipfer teaches urbanization, politics and planning in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He has published widely on social and political theory, the city and urbanization, and comparative urban politics.