She is the lead editor of Building Inclusive Cities: Women’s Safety and the Right to the City (Earthscan, 2012), author of Suburb, Slum, Urban Village: Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood (University of British Columbia Press, 2009) and The Handbook of Community Safety, Gender, and Violence Prevention: practical planning tools (Earthscan, 2008), and the co-author of Safe Cities: guidelines for planning, design, and management (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995). Previously, she worked for the City of Toronto on healthy city initiatives. Dr. Whitzman has an international reputation for her work on the prevention of violence and on gender-inclusive cities.