Selected Professional Appointments
Professor, Department of Human Geography, University of Toronto Scarborough
André Sorensen is Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto. His current research examines urban institutions, institutional change, and temporal processes in urbanization and urban governance from a comparative and historical institutionalist perspective, with a focus on urban land and property development, infrastructure management, megacities, and the creation of increasingly differentiated property and planning systems in urban settings. He has published over 60 papers and chapters, and co-edited 5 books, most recently the International Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions. His monograph ‘The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the 21st Century’ (Routledge 2002) was awarded the book prize of the International Planning History Society in 2004. His paper ‘Taking Path Dependence Seriously’ (2015) published in Planning Perspectives 30(1)17-38, won the Association of European Schools of Planning Best Paper Award in 2016.
Specialty Focus Areas
Planning livable, sustainable cities; role of civil society in urban planning governance; suburbs and suburban sprawl; livable cities in Japan.
Email: andre.sorensen@utoronto.ca
Phone: (416) 287-05607
Website: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~sorensen/Home.html
Resources
- The Scarborough Opportunity: A Comprehensive Walking and Cycling Network, by André Sorensen, Isaac Bortolussi, Ivan Chong, Jamila Gowie, Nadhiena Shankar and Kelly Anne Vigayan, September 2021.