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. More recently, he has been working on the history of the Beaches neighbourhood and his book The Beaches: Creation of a Toronto Neighbourhood is in the process of publication with UT Press.