Patricia Basile

Dr. Patricia Basile is an urban and political geographer with a research focus on the uneven racialized geographies of housing and urbanization. Specifically, her work engages with questions about communities’ organizing around housing rights, alternative forms of property ownership, such as community land trusts, poverty and housing displacement, urban insurgencies, and the historical development of housing informality and dispossession in the Global South.  To answer these questions, Patricia draws from activist and community-engaged scholarship frameworks to collaborate with practitioners and organizers in producing and sharing knowledge through multiple means, inside and outside academia. Basile holds a Ph.D. in the Constructed Environment focused on Urban Planning and International Development from the University of Virginia, a Specialization Degree in Building and Urban Sustainability from the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, and a Bachelor of Architecture and Urban Planning from the same university.