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Rémy Tremblay was born in Québec City and graduated from Laval (Université Laval) where he also obtained his masters degree in Geography. In 2000, he received a PhD in Geography from the University of Ottawa.His work investigates the many sociospatial dimensions of the North American city, in both its center core and suburbs.

Between 2002 and 2004, Rémy Tremblay completed a postdoctorate transfer of work at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS-urbanisation, culture et société) in Montréal. During this two-year period, he furthered his research on cities’ sociospatial factors affecting the North American knowledge-based economy.

Since June 2005, Rémy Tremblay is professor at Télé-université (UQAM’s distance learning school). Professor Tremblay is currently Canada Research Chair on Knowledge Cities and director of l’Équipe de recherche sur les villes du savoir (ERVS - research team on knowledge cities), a laboratory funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). He has been accredited to supervise graduate students in urban studies and tourism at UQAM and INRS-UCS.

Rémy Tremblay is co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Regional Science. In addition, he is Fellow (FRGS), as well as Certified Geographer (Cgeog) of the Royal Geographical Society (UK) ; Fellow of the Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions, Florida Atlantic University ; Research Scientist, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa.

Andy Sywak is the former publisher of the Castro Courier neighborhood newspaper in San Francisco. His work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and the East Bay Express among other publications. He also wrote a popular blog on the HBO show "The Wire." A native of Berkeley, he currently lives in Los Angeles.

Steve Bartin is a resident of Cook County and native who blogs regularly about urban affairs. He works in Internet sales.

Wendell Cox is principal of Demographia, an international public policy firm located in the St. Louis metropolitan area. He is a founding senior fellow at the Urban Reform Institute, Houston, a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Demographics and Policy at Chapman University in Orange, California. He has served as a visiting professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris. His principal interests are economics, poverty alleviation, demographics, urban policy and transport. He is co-author of the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey and author of Demographia World Urban Areas.

Mayor Tom Bradley appointed him to three terms on the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (1977-1985) and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich appointed him to the Amtrak Reform Council, to complete the unexpired term of New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman (1999-2002). He is author of War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life and Toward More Prosperous Cities: A Framing Essay on Urban Areas, Transport, Planning and the Dimensions of Sustainability.

Adam Mayer is an architect based in California. In addition to his job designing buildings he writes the China Urban Development Blog.

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