A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia (PDF)

Laura E. Taylor is an associate professor and planning program coordinator in York University's Faculty of Environmental Studies, with a PhD in cultural and historical geography from the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Government of Ontario's Greenbelt Council, the Urban Land Institute Women's Leadership Team, and Lambda Alpha International. She is a registered professional planning consultant. She has written many articles on exurbia and planning in both scholarly and professional journals and is co-editor with Kirsten Valentine Cadieux of the book Landscape and the Ideology of Nature: Green Sprawl.
Patrick Hurley is an associate professor of Environmental Studies at Ursinus College where he is an environmental social scientist interested in the politics of natural area conservation and plant foraging in city regions. He holds a PhD in Environmental Studies, Science and Policy from the University of Oregon, where his research on exurbia wonhim the Morris K. Udall Foundation's Environmental Public Policy and Conflict Resolution Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. With Peter A. Walker, he is coauthor of the book, Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon, and written extensively on exurbia in the western and eastern United States.