Shawn Micallef | Urbanist & Writer

Shawn Micallef is the author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness, The Trouble With Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto and Full Frontal TO. He’s a weekly columnist at the Toronto Star, and a senior editor and co-owner of the independent, Jane Jacobs Prize–winning magazine Spacing.  Shawn teaches at the University of Toronto and was a 2011-2012 Canadian Journalism Fellow at University of Toronto’s Massey College. In 2002, while a resident at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab, he co-founded [murmur], the location-based mobile phone documentary project that has spread to over 25 cities globally.