David Gordon FCIP AICP is Professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning of the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University. He received a doctorate in urban design from the Harvard GSD. David was SURP Director for over a decade and has also taught at McGill, Ryerson, Toronto, Riga, Western Australia, Harvard and Pennsylvania, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. Prior to becoming a full-time professor, David was a principal in a prominent architecture & design firm and manager in a Toronto waterfront agency. He is Research Chair of the Council for Canadian Urbanism and a CIP Fellow, sharing their National Awards four times.  Recent books include Town and Crown and Planning Canadian Communities (with Pam Shaw). David's research examines planning histories and compares Canadian, Australian and American suburbs.