Publications
2018
Harris, R. & Lehrer, U. (eds.) (2018). The Suburban Land Question: A Global Survey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Harris, R. & Lehrer, U. (2018). Introduction. In R. Harris & U. Lehrer (eds.) The Suburban Land Question. A Global Survey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.3-42.
Harris, R. (2018). Conclusion. In R. Harris & U. Lehrer (eds.) The Suburban Land Question. A Global Survey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.302-310.
Harris, R. & Hendershott, K. (2018). How newspapers portray suburbs. A paradox. Journal of Urban Affairs. 40 (7): 974-991.
Harris, R. (2018). Modes of informal urban development. A global phenomenon. Journal of Planning Literature. 33 (3): 267-286.
Harris, R. (2018). Suburban stereotypes. In B. Hanlon & T. Vicino (eds.) The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs. New York: Routledge, pp. 29-38.
Harris, R. & Rubin, M. (2018). An effective public partnership for suburban land development: Fleurhof, Johannesburg. In R. Harris & U. Lehrer (eds.) The Suburban Land Question. A Global Survey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 258-279.
2017
Harris, R. & Vorms, C. (eds.)(2017). What’s in a Name? Talking about Urban Peripheries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Harris, R. & Keil, R. (2017). Globalising cities and suburbs. In A. Bain and L. Peake (eds.) Urbanization in a Global Context. A Canadian Readers Guide. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp.52-69.
Shanks, A., Harris, R. & Coates, V. (2017). Doubts about ‘suburbs’ in Canada. In R. Harris & C. Vorms (eds.) What’s in a Name? Talking about Urban Peripheries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.89-111.
Harris, R. (2017). Transnational urban meanings. The passage of ‘suburb’ to India, and its rough reception. In A. Sandoval-Strausz & N. Kwak (eds.) Making Cities Global. The Transnational Turn in Urban History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 223-240.
2015
Harris, R. (2015). Suburbanisation and Suburbanism. In J. Wright (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2nd Edition. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Harris, R. (2015). Slum-free. The Suburban Ideal. In J. Lorinc, M. McClelland, E.l. Scheinberg & T. Taylor (eds.) The Ward. The Life and Loss of Toronto’s First Immigrant Neighbourhoods. Toronto: Coach House Press, pp. 233-237.
Harris, R. (2015). Housing: Dreams and Nightmares. In P. Filion, et al. (eds.) Canadian Cities in Transition. Perspectives for an Urban Age. 5th Edition. Toronto: Oxford University Press, pp. 325-342.
Harris, R. (2015). International Policy for Urban Housing Markets in the Global South since 1945. In F. Miraftab & N. Kudva (eds.) Cities of the Global South. New York: Routledge.
Harris, R. (2015). Using Toronto to explore three suburban stereotypes. Environment and Planning. 47 (1): 30-49.
Lehrer, U. & Harris, R. (2015). La Question du Terrain Suburbaine. Pole Sud 42: 63-85.
Lehrer, U., Harris, R. & Bloch, R. (2015). The Suburban Land Question. Urban Planning International. 30 (6): 18-26.
2014
Harris, R. (2014, March 6). The politics of municipal mergers (and demergers) in Montreal. Métropolitiques/Metropolitics.
Harris, R. (2014). The Imprint of the Owner-Builder on American Suburbs. In M. Conzen & P. Larkham (eds.) Shapers of the Urban Form. Explorations in Morphological Agency. London: Routledge, pp. 193-216.
Harris, R. (2014). International Policy for Urban Housing Markets in the Global South since 1945. In F. Miraftab & N. Kudva (eds). Cities of the Global South. New York: Routledge.
Harris, R. (2014). Urban Land Markets: A Southern Exposure. In Susan Parnell and Sophie Oldfield, eds. The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. London: Routledge.
2013
Harris, R. (2013). Land. In R. Keil (ed.) Suburban Constellations. Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century. Berlin: Jovis.
Harris, R. (2013). The Rise of Filtering Down. The American Housing Market Transformed, 1918-1929. Social Science History. 37 (4): 515-549.
2012
Harris, R. (2012). The Imprint of the Owner-Builder on American Suburbs. In M. Conzen & P. Larkham (eds.) Shapers of Urban Form. Explorations in Morphological Agency. London: Routledge.
Jha, A.K., Bloch, R., & Lamond, J. (2012). Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century. The World Bank.
Harris, R. (2012). Review article: The city resurgent. Urban Studies. 49 (14): 3233-3242.
Lamond, J, Bhattacharya, N. & Bloch, R. (2012). The role of solid waste management as a response to urban flood risk in developing countries, a case study analysis. In D.G. Proverbs, S. Mambretti, C.A. Brebbia, & D. De Wrachien (eds.) Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response III. Vol. 159. Southampton: WIT Press.
Lamond, L. Bloch, R. & Jha, A.K. (2012). Developing integrated flood risk management: Lessons from case studies collected for the World Bank Urban Flood Handbook. Implementing Flood Resilience – Smartest International Conference. Athens, Greece.
Jha, A.K, Bloch, R. & Lamond, J. (2012). Cities and flooding: a guide to integrated urban flood risk management for the 21st Century, Washington D.C.: GFDRR/World Bank.
2011
Awuah, K.G.B., Hammond, F., Booth, C. A., Lamond, J., Proverbs, D. G. & Bloch, R. (2011). A Conceptual Analysis of the role of Human Action Theory in Sub-Saharan Africa Urban Land Use Planning. Journal of International Real Estate and Construction Studies 1.
Harris, R. (2011). The meaning of China’s urban transformation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 35 (5): 1083-1085.
2010
Harris, R. (2010). Meaningful Types in a World of Suburbs. In M. Clapson & R. Hutchinson (eds.) Suburbanisation in a Global Society: Research in Urban Sociology. Bingley: Emerald Group publishing.
