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Liette Gilbert is a professor and Graduate Program Director in the Environmental Studies Program at York University. She holds a PhD in Urban Planning and has extensive research interests that revolve around cities, urban planning, migration, citizenship, and social environmental justice. Her scholarship critically examines the intersection of migration control and urban development, focusing on how political economies and ecological factors shape urban spaces. Gilbert’s work includes investigations into post-disaster redevelopment, especially in the context of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train disaster. She is involved in various research projects, including SSHRC Major Research Collaborative Initiative on global suburbanism, which studies governance and land infrastructure issues. Gilbert actively supervises graduate students in Geography and has made significant contributions to our understanding of urban environments, particularly through her publications.
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