Jay Pitter: After establishing a career in public funding and marketing communications, Jay Pitter earned a Masters in Environmental Studies at York University, where she investigated crime prevention through environmental design and urban place-making. She is also a writer and part-time professor.
John Lorinc: John Lorinc is a Toronto journalist who writes about urban affairs, politics, and business for publications such as Spacing magazine, the Globe and Mail and The Walrus. He is the author of The New City: How the Crisis in Canada's Urban Centres Is Reshaping The Nation (Penguin, 2006) and co-editor of The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood (Coach House, 2015).

Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space. With essays contributed by an array of city-builders, it proposes solutions for fully inclusive communities that respond to the complexities of a global city.

Jay Pitter is a writer and professor based in Toronto. She holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University.

John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about urban affairs, politics, and business. He co-edited The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood (Coach House, 2015).