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Fernando Calderón Figueroa is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His research interests encompass Economic Geography, GIS, Spatial Analysis, and Urban Policy. He focuses on the relationship between socio-spatial inequality, social solidarity, and policies affecting community development. Calderón Figueroa's work investigates urban design's impact on social infrastructure in communities, urban politics, and neighborhood evolution by employing a combination of traditional quantitative and qualitative methods and novel spatial computational techniques. His scholarly contributions have appeared in recognized journals, including Land, Socius, Cities, Geographical Analysis, and the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, emphasizing the relevance of research to urban social policy. He is committed to ensuring that his scholarship has a significant impact on urban social policy and has been featured in policy-oriented outlets like Bloomberg’s CityLab.
Department of Sociology