Pamela Blais

Pamela Blais is an urban planner and Principal of Metropole Consultants Ltd.  Her focus is on creating better cities by integrating planning, economic and environmental thinking in the analysis of urban issues and the development of innovative policy.  

 

In her twenty-plus year career as an urban planning consultant, her work has included reurbanisation strategies; long term regional growth planning; municipal economic development strategies; innovative land use policies for industrial areas; urban regeneration strategies; sustainable urban form, community design and infrastructure; and research on the impact of technology on urban form. 

 

She is the author of Perverse Cities:  Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy and Urban Sprawl, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Donner Book Prize - awarded for the best Canadian public policy book of the year.

 

Pamela has a Masters in Planning from the University of Toronto and a PhD in urban economic geography from the London School of Economics.