Luisa Sotomayor Editor

Luisa Sotomayor is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and Director of Planning at the University of Toronto. Her research examines urban inequality through the lenses of governance, urban politics, and spatial planning with a focus on housing precarity, socio-legal exclusions, and the emergence of new socio-spatial peripheries in Latin America and Canada.

Nicholas A. Phelps is Chair of Urban Planning and Associate Dean International in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne and a Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture at Southeast University, China. He is the author of The Urban Planning Imagination, and his interests cover planning theory and the planning and politics of suburbanization.

Sai Balakrishnan is an Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley. Her research and teaching broadly pivot around the political economy of urbanization, planning institutions in the global south, and the spatial politics of land-use and property. She is the author of Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations along Urban Corridors in India (2019).