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Laura Taylor is a professor and the planning program coordinator in York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. She has taught urban planning to more than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students at U of T, Ryerson and York since 1997 and has been an early-adopter of internet-based teaching and student engagement techniques. She has first hand knowledge of the next generation of planners—the Millennials—who communicate with each other and the world around them very differently and who are leading the profession to radical change. Dr. Taylor is co-editor of the book Landscape and the Ideology of Nature: Green Sprawl, member of Ontario’s Greenbelt Council and a planning consultant. She has been a registered professional planner since 1996, and often teams up with Toronto land economics and municipal finance firm Hemson Consulting Ltd. As a researcher, she studies land use planning and environmental management of exurbia—the near-urban, rural landscape. Her current research project is the study of rural and estate residential development in the Lake Simcoe Watershed just north of Toronto. She has written articles on Toronto’s greenbelt experience in several scholarly and professional journals. The transformation of rural landscapes in the face of urban growth is the focus of her career.