Phil Ashton Ph.D., Assistant Professor

Phil Ashton joined the Urban Planning & Policy Program as an Assistant Professor in August 2005. Born and raised in Canada, Phil trained as a political scientist and an urban planner before working in the cooperative sector in Canada and the United States. Since returning to academia, Phil's research has focused on the implications of financial modernization for the revitalization of central city neighborhoods.

Phil has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Winnipeg (1990), a Masters in Urban Planning from McGill University (1994), and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University (2005).

Courses

UPP501 Urban Space, Place and Institutions
UPP533 Development Finance Analysis

Research

Housing finance; community economic development; inner city markets; financial geography; comparative urban policy; normative ethical theory in planning.

Publications

Newman, Kathe, and Philip Ashton. 2004. “Neoliberal Urban Policy and New Paths of Neighborhood Change in the American Inner City.” Environment and Planning A 36 (7): 1151-1172.

Ashton, Philip, Lake, Robert, and Mark Pendras. 2004. “Review of Nicholas Blomley, David Delaney, and Richard T. Ford, eds., The Legal Geographies Reader.” Political Geography 23 (2): 229-231.

Pendras, Mark, Lake, Robert, and Philip Ashton. 2005. “Review of Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, and Gordon Macleod, eds., State/Space”. Environment & Planning D: Society and Space 23(4): 313-314.

Ashton, Philip. 1997. “Student Housing Cooperatives in North America.” In The World of Cooperative Enterprise 1997. Oxford: Plunkett Foundation.

Curriculum Vita

Contact

pashton@uic.edu
Room 231 (MC 348)
312-413-7599