Jason Hackworth

Professor of Planning and Geography

Welcome. I am a professor of planning and geography at the University of Toronto. I write and teach about cities, political economy, and racial discrimination. This page contains information for those wishing to contact me about letters of recommendation, supervision, media interviews, coursework, and research.

Announcements

I will be teaching two courses during the Spring 2024 term:

- GGR 359: Comparative Urban Policy

- GGR 458: The Urban Problem

If you would like to meet, please email me directly and we can set up a time.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Anti-Black residential preferences in Toronto. Journal of Urban Affairs, early view.

Reaction to the Black city as a cause of modern conservatism: A case study of political change in Ohio, 1932-2016. The Du Bois Review, 19(1): 85-105

W.E.B Du Bois and the urban political economy tradition in geography. Progress in Human Geography, 45(5): 1022-1039.

Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt (2019, Columbia University Press). Click here to order.

Why black-majority neighborhoods are the epicenter of population shrinkage in the American Rust Belt, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 112(1): 44-61.

If you lack institutional access to any of these items, please email me directly.