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Symposium on Urban Design History and Theory

We are excited to announce that the 2025 edition of the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT) will be held at the University at Buffalo, New York! The Call for Papers is open now. The purpose of the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory is to create a forum for those whose scholarship relates to urban design to present and discuss their research, engage in fruitful conversation and debate, and form a community based on shared interests. …

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UHPH2024 Registration, Conference Dinner and Conference Tours

Please find here a link to the UHPH2024 registration page.

The registration page now includes an option to register for the conference dinner, which will be at Thai Pothong in Newtown. Thai Potong caters well for most dietary restrictions.

Finally, there are two tour options, both scheduled for the morning of Thursday 11th of July, beginning at 10am.…

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UHPH Keynotes

The UHPH2024 conference organising committee is delighted to announce our line-up of keynote speakers:

Simon Barber Papatūānuku (Earth Mother) and the Grammar of Private Property 

Robert Freestone Imagining and contesting planned urban futures: The legacies and lessons of an unbuilt Sydney

Julie McIntyre

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Simon Barber (Kāi Tahu) is a lecturer in Sociology at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka | University of Otago.…

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Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History

UHPH 2024, University of Sydney, July 11-13, 2024

Plan for Sydney (1948), by Reg Thornton. Source: State Library of NSW

In the cities of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, real estate seems to be almost a second nature. It is a pervasive fact in daily life, structuring the economy and the environment.…

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“Real Estate Agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History”

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