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Joined UNSW in mid 1991 after six years with a Sydney planning, research and heritage consultancy. Held previous appointments in the 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 now president 2002-2006. Head of Planning Program 2001-2004.

Teaching

Planning history, heritage conservation, metropolitan change, research design and planning projects.

Research

Development of modern planning theory and practice in Australia, heritage conservation and urban re-structuring.

Recent Publications

Books

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, 229pp.

(Editor) Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience, E & FN Spon, London, 2000.

Papers

"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.

Chapters

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.