Richard White – historian, author, and part-time university professor – has lived in and walked the streets of the Beaches neighbourhood for some twenty-five years. He received his PhD in Canadian history from the University of Toronto in 1995, and has remained associated with that institution ever since – as a lecturer at UT Mississauga and, more recently, UT Scarborough, as a major contributor to the UT History Project, and as an active Research Associate with the university’s Cities Centre. A stint as the inaugural Research Director of the Neptis Foundation led him into the history of urban planning, a field in which he remains active; his Planning Toronto: The Planners, the Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80 (UBC Press, 2016) was awarded the Ontario Historical Society’s 2017 J.J. Talman Award for the best book in local or regional history. His most recent book, The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood has just been published by U of T Press.