Susan Ruddick

Director of Planning for the Program in Planning, University of Toronto

Professor Ruddick has a pre-professional degree in Architecture from The School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, a Masters in Geography from McGill University and a PhD in Planning from the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA.   As a planner she has been active in the cooperative housing movement in Montreal, in the planning and development of Milton Parc Housing Cooperative, the largest housing cooperative in Canadian history; in the community of Point St. Charles as a community planner, and with the Community Redevelopment Association of the City of Los Angeles on that city’s Downtown Strategic Plan. Her academic research includes an extensive study on the evolution of service networks for homeless youth in Los Angeles, and more recently, the rethinking of the city as a biophilic site to better accommodate a thriving ecology and mitigate habitat loss for wildlife, with a focus on the Greater Toronto Area.

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