Aaron Moore
Title: Professor
Phone: 204.786.9387
Office: 6L13
Building: Lockhart Hall
Email: aa.moore@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Aaron Moore (HBA, University of Toronto, 2004; MA, University of Western Ontario, 2005; PhD, University of Western Ontario, 2009) is an expert on urban politics and public policy. His interests include: the politics and governance of urban development and planning, municipal governance and finance, the governance and finance of infrastructure, municipal elections, urban public administration, and municipal economic development policy. He is currently a fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of City Planning, University of Manitoba.
Courses:
City Politics, Issues in City Politics, Public Policy Process, The Politics of Urban Development, Local Public Administration
Research Interests:
Urban Politics/Local Government/Public Policy
Current Research Projects:
Investigating the Role of Municipal Economic Development Agencies in Canada: Operations, Oversight and Politics. With Malcom Bird and Joe Lyons.
This project examines the organizational structure and operations of Canadian municipal economic development agencies (MEDAs), and their interactions with elected officials, city staff, the private sector, and citizenry. We intend to investigate what mechanisms, if any, are in place to ensure the oversight and accountability of these arms-length bodies, and the role different political actors play in shaping their policies and programing. They have become ubiquitous in large municipalities across Canada. However, academics have little knowledge of their organizational structure, the nature of their relationship to different stakeholders, nor many of the activities they engage in to fulfill their mandate. We plan to address this dearth of knowledge through both a general statistical canvas of Canadian municipalities, the development of a robust database on their operations, and two or more in-depth case studies. Our main goals for this project are to begin a discussion on MEDAs as part of the larger discussion of municipal economic development, to understand how they operate and interact with city staff and elected official, and to understand their relationship with other stakeholders.
Funding: SSHRC Insight Development Grant Number: 430-2021-00570.
Publications:
Select Publications:
Books:
McGregor RM, Moore AA & Stephenson LB. 2021. Electing a Mega-mayor: Toronto 2014. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Moore AA. 2013. Planning politics in Toronto: The Ontario Municipal Board and urban development. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Articles:
Moore AA and Caporale A. 2023. The Efficacy of Statutory Public Hearings for Planning. Journal of Urban Affairs XX(X): 1-21. Published online first. Open Access.
Moore AA. 2021. Motivations for Mobilization: Comparing Urban and Suburban Residents’ Participation in the Politics of Planning and Development. Urban Affairs Review 58(4): 1124-1151. Open Access.
Moore AA and McGregor RM. 2020. The representativeness of neighbourhood associations in Toronto and Vancouver. Urban Studies XX(X): 1-16. Online First. Open Access.
Moore AA and Wright J. 2017. Toronto’s market-oriented subsidised housing PPPs: A risk worth the reward? Cities 69: 64-72.
Moore AA, McGregor RM, and Stephenson LB. 2017. Paying Attention and the Incumbency Effect: Voting Behaviour in the 2014 Toronto Municipal Election. International Political Science Review 38(1): 85-98.
Moore AA. 2016. Decentralized decision-making and urban planning: A case study of density for benefit agreements in Toronto and Vancouver. Canadian Public Administration 59(3): 425-47.
Policy Reports:
Moore AA. 2018. Buildings with benefits: The defect of density bonusing. C.D. Howe Institute E-Brief. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute.
Moore AA. 2017. The potential and consequences of municipal reform. IMFG Perspectives No.20. Toronto: Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
Moore AA. 2013. Trading density for benefits: Toronto and Vancouver compared. IMFG Papers on Municipal Finance and Governance No. 13. Toronto: Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.