Carolyn Whitzman

Whitzman began her career in 1989 working for the Municipal government of Toronto to prevent gender-related violence. She completed dozens of projects particularly focused on improving women's safety in public spaces.^[7]

From 2003 to 2019 she was a professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia.^[2] This included addressing the 2016 Habitat III Conference in Quito, Ecuador.^[8]

Whitzman recently began writing fiction books based on her findings and work in planning and housing.^[9] Her book Clara at the Door with a Revolver, about Clara Ford, a Black tailor and single mother accused of murder in 1894, was a finalist in the 2023 Toronto Book Awards.^[10]

Her career has focused on housing policy and practice in cities and its connections to how marginalised and disadvantaged groups use and interact with their urban environments.^[11]

• Whitzman, Carolyn (2024). Home truths: fixing Canada's housing crisis. Vancouver: On Point Press. ISBN 9780774890700.
• Whitzman, Carolyn (2023). Clara at the door with a revolver: the scandalous Black suspect, the exemplary White son, and the murder that shocked Toronto. Vancouver ; Toronto: On Point Press, a UBC Press imprint. ISBN 9780774890618.
• Building inclusive cities: women's safety and the right to the city. New York: Routledge. 2013. ISBN 9780415628167.
• Whitzman, Carolyn (2009). Suburb, Slum, Urban Village. UBC Press. ISBN 9780774815369.
• Whitzman, Carolyn (2008). The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention: Practical Planning Tools. Hoboken: Routledge. ISBN 9781844075010.