Dr. Taylor specializes in urban political economy and Canadian and comparative politics and policymaking, with an empirical focus on historical and contemporary multi-level governance of cities. He also pursues parallel interests in municipal campaigns and elections, local public finance, political geography, immigration policy and politics, and the historical Census. Professor Taylor was the founding director and current associate director of Western’s Centre for Urban Policy and Local Governance. He is a Fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and a non-practicing Registered Professional Planner. Since 2024, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Territory, Politics, Governance. Before returning to doctoral studies, Professor Taylor worked as a graphic designer and urban planner, experiences that have generated ongoing interests in place and space, as well as also data visualization and cartography.