Nicholas A. Phelps is chair of urban planning at the University of Melbourne. He has published numerous books and over a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles internationally. His work on suburbanization derives from UK ESRC, British Academy and Urban Studies Foundation research grants.

Roger Keil is a professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change of York University in Toronto, Canada. A previous editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, former director of York University's City Institute, and principle investigator of a large research consortium on global suburbanisms, Keil's research areas are global suburbanization, cities and infectious diseases, regional governance, and urban political ecology.

Paul¿J.¿Maginn¿is an associate professor for urban and regional planning at the University of Western Australia. He is Director of the UWA Public Policy Institute and was Editor-in-Chief of Australasia's leading urban studies journal,¿Urban Policy and Research¿from 2014-2023.¿Maginn's research expertise/interests include: strategic metropolitan planning, Australian/global suburbanisms, urban policy, multiculturalism, and, geographies of the sex industry.