Architecture, Building and Planning - Research Publications
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ItemCompact city visions for Melbourne(Australian Sustainable Cities Research Network, 2009)
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ItemBecoming Places, Urbanism / Architecture / Identity / Power(Taylor & Francis, 2010)
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ItemThe politics of urban spectacle: Melbourne riverscapes(Melbourne University Publishing, 2009)
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ItemA Test of Character: Regulating Place-identity in Inner-city Melbourne(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2009-11)During the 1990s, urban planning in Melbourne changed from prescriptive regulation to a place-based performance framework with a focus on existing or desired ‘urban character’. This paper is a case study of a contentious urban project in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy: a highly valued place characterised as an irregular and transgressive mix of differences: between building types, functions, forms, heights and people. Contrasting conceptions, experiences and constructions of ‘character’ are explored from the viewpoints of residents, architect/developer and the state. To what degree does the regulation of ‘character’ open or close the city to creative innovation? Can it become camouflage for creative destruction? How to regulate for irregularity? The paper concludes with a discussion of theories of place (Massey vs Heidegger) and the prospects of concepts such as habitus (Bourdieu) and assemblage (Deleuze) for the interpretation of a progressive sense of place.
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ItemUnderstanding neighbourhood character: The case of Camberwell(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009)
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ItemAppropriating the spectacle: Play and politics in a leisure landscape(Informa UK Limited, 2004-10)