University of Waterloo, School of Planning

Sean is a Lecturer, currently teaching undergraduate and graduate students in the planning and engineering about the integration of land use and infrastructure planner trough the course, PLAN/CIVE 484/684 – Physical Infrastructure and Planning.
Sean is also a Member of the University’s Pragma Council, which advances knowledge exchange and policy interventions in city-building, through mentoring the next generation of urban planners and engaging with current thought-leaders. 

Ryerson University, School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP)

Sean is an Instructor, currently teaching graduate and undergraduate courses including:

• Advanced Planning Studio, PLG720
• Community Sustainable Development, PLE565
• Planning for Non-Planners, PLX333

CITY INSTITUTE AT YORK UNIVERSITY (CITY)

​Sean has been a Research Fellow at CITY since 2012, advising graduate students and leading important research projects including:

• The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group, a module of the Major Collaborative Research Initiative - Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in the 21st Century.
• ​Transit equity research funded by the Province of Ontario’s transit agency, Metrolinx, to inform the review of The Big Move – Regional Transportation Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe.   ​

Publications

Collens M. & S. Hertel, S. 2016. “Public transit and the public good: why and how planners can deliver more equity.” Ontario Planning, July/August. Ontario Professional Planners Institute.

Hardwicke, C. & S. Hertel. 2013. “Planning and density issues in Toronto’s hyberbia”. Eco Web Town, No.7. December.

Hertel, S. & R. Keil (eds.) 2013. The Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group Roundtable Report. Toronto: The City Institute at York University.

Hertel, S., R. Keil & M. Collens. 2016. Next Stop Equity: Routes to fairer transit access in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. (February) Toronto: The City Institute at York University.

Hertel, S., R. Keil & M. Collens.2015. Switching Tracks: Towards transit equity in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. (March) Toronto: The City Institute at York University.

Hertel S. & M. Moos. 2016. “What would Jane Jacobs Say? Why planners should think and do more about social equity.” Ontario Planning, September/October. Ontario Professional Planners Institute.

Keil R. & S. Hertel, 2016 (forthcoming) “Fixing postsuburbia: Recalibrating the way we think, speak and act upon Toronto’s periphery, in P. Maginn & K. Anacker (eds.) 2016. From Dreamscapes to Nightmares? Suburban Imaginaries, Challenges and Prospects in the 21st Century.

Keil R. & Hertel, S. 2015. “Erst reden, dann handeln” – Die Greater Toronto Suburban Working Group und der (Um-)Bau der städtischen Peripherie in Kanadas boomender Metropole, in Jessen, J. and F. Roost (eds.) 2015a. Refitting Suburbia: Erneuerung der Stadt des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland und den USA. Berlin: Jovis: 95-112.  

Moos M. & S. Hertel (eds.). 2016. (Forthcoming) “Coming Home”. Alternatives Journal.