Jason Hackworth

 

 

 

 

 

Email: jason.hackworth at utoronto dot ca
Phone: (416) 946-8764
Office: 5010 Sidney Smith Hall
Office hours (Summer 2012): By appointment only

I'm a professor of geography and urban planning at the University of Toronto.

My research focuses on how large-scale economic and political movements shape local policy and development outcomes in North American cities.  Topically, this has included a focus on urban form, social housing, municipal finance, and gentrification.  Geographically, this has included a focus on New York, Toronto, Chicago, Phoenix, Seattle, Nashville, and Philadelphia among other cities. My work has appeared in Environment and Planning A, The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Affairs Review, and Urban Geography, among others.  My recent book, The Neoliberal City: governance, ideology and development in American urbanism, was published by Cornell University Press in 2007. My current book, Faith-Based: Religious neoliberalism and the politics of welfare in the United States, is scheduled for a Spring 2012 release by the University of Georgia Press. For more information on my current research, please consult my current CV.

I teach four classes a year on urban, economic, and political topics including: GGR 216 (global cities); GGR 358 (geography, religion, and political economy); GGR 458 (advanced topics in urban geography); and JPG 1516 (planning in the face of economic decline). Up-to-date information on each course is available only to registered students through blackboard.

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