Roger Keil

Roger Keil is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto, a member of York University's City Institute, and a Fellow of CIFAR’s Humanity’s Urban Future program. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, and regional governance. He is the author of Pandemic Urbanism (2023, with S. Harris Ali & Creighton Connolly) and Suburban Planet (2018). Among his recent edited books are two volumes on Peripheral Centralities (with Nick Phelps & Paul Maginn, 2025), Massive Suburbanization (2019 with K. Murat Güney & Murat Üçoğlu), After Suburbia (2022 with Fulong Wu) and Turning Up the Heat (2023, with Maria Kaika, Tait Mandler & Yannis Tzaninis).