Zack Tayor is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Specializing in comparative urban political economy, the multi-level governance of cities, and political geography, his work lies at the intersection of political science, urban geography, planning studies, and urban sociology. He is a fellow at the Institute on Municipal and Governance at the University of Toronto’s School of Cities, a non-practicing registered professional planner, and founding director of the University of Western Ontario’s Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance. His work has been published in Regional Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Local Government Studies, Planning Theory, Town Planning Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Canadian Journal of Political Science, and the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. His book Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2019.