Tom Slater

Tom Slater is a Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. He is trained as an urban geographer and works in the style of institutional political economy on a range of urban issues, particularly gentrification and displacement, urban marginality, territorial stigmatization, critical urban theory, and housing justice movements. Professor Slater is the author/co-author of six books and over 75 scholarly articles, and over the last decade, he has delivered keynote and public lectures in 20 different countries. He has held Professorial Fellowships at the University of Trento, Italy; the University of Cape Town, South Africa; and the University of Chile-Santiago. He sits on numerous editorial boards and is a former Editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs and The Sociological Review.