Joined UNSW in mid 1991 after six years with a Sydney planning, research and heritage consultancy. Held previous appointments in the NSW Department of Planning, Department of Geography at the University of Melbourne and the Urban Research Program at the Australian National University. Council member of the International Planning History Society and President 2002-2006. Head of Planning Program 2001-2004. Acting Associate Dean (Research) in 2007. Elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in 2008.
Teaching
Planning history (PLAN2122), master planning (PLAN3032) , research design (PLAN4031) and planning projects (PLAN4132).
Research
Development of modern planning theory and practice in Australia, heritage conservation, metropolitan re-structuring and planning education. Involved in ARC funded research on the role of sustainability in remote communities town planning (LP0667822), the contribution of early town planning associations in development of Australian planning theory and practice (DP0771569), and the evolution and policy implications of major airport activity centres, internationally and within Australia (LP0775225).
Recent Publications
Books
Florence Taylor's Hats: Designing, building and editing Sydney, Sydney: Halstead Press, 2008.
Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, commerce and the city beautiful, 1900-1930, Sydney: UNSW Press.
Editor (with Bill Randolph and Carolyn Butler-Bowdon) Talking Sydney: Population, community and culture in contemporary Sydney, Sydney: UNSW Press.
The Learning Community (2003) University of New South Wales, Sydney (with A Bagnara , M Scoufis and C Pratt).
Human Scale in Architecture: George Molnar's Sydney (2003), Craftsman House/Thames and Hudson, Sydney (with J Holder and J Kerr)
Editor (with Stephen Hamnett) The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2000.
(Editor) Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience, E & FN Spon, London, 2000.
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Papers
"The Limits to Nationalism: Moves Toward an Australian Town Planning Association 1913-
1917", Australian Historical Studies, Vol 40, No 1, 2009, pp. 32-46 (with Margaret Park).
"Planning, Sustainability and Airport-led Urban Development", International Planning Studies, Vol 14, No 2, pp. 161-176.
"Identifying Identifying Australian sites of urban planning heritage: results from a national
web-based survey", Australian Planner, Vol 44, No 4, pp. 36-43 (with Simon Pinnegar).
"Preserving Sydney's Heritage in the Early Twentieth Century", Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 30, April 1999, pp. 44-60.
"Metropolitan Restructuring and Suburban Employment Centres: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Australian Experience", Journal of The American Planning Association, Vol. 64, Summer 1998, pp. 286-297 (with Peter Murphy).
"An Imperial Aspect: The Australasian Town Planning Tour of 1914-15", Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 44, June 1998, pp. 159-176.
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Chapters
"Aesthetics, Utility and the Shaping of Public Space: Implementing the City Beautiful in Australian Government projects in Perth and Brisbane", in Caroline Miller and Michael Roche (eds) Past Matters: Heritage and Planning History â€" Case Studies from the Pacific Rim, Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 33-57.
"A History of Planning’" in Susan Thompson (ed) Planning Australia, Sydney: Cambridge
University Press, pp. 67-90.
Greenbelts in City and Regional Planning', in KC Parsons and D Schuyler, eds, From Garden City to Green City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, 67-98.
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