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 urban decline, political economy and racial exclusion. 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 2023 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 (I will not be holding regular, in-person, office hours).
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.
