Please see here a link to Rachel Gallagher’s recently published report on the 2024 UHPH conference. Thanks to Rachel for so carefully documenting the activities we participated in and the ideas we encountered at this year’s conference. It’s a great record of the event and Planning Perspectives is an excellent venue in which to share the work of the AUHPH group.… Continue reading...
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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. … Continue reading...
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.… Continue reading...
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.… Continue reading...
The 2024 UHPH Conference will offer bursaries of up to A$750 to support support the travel of two PhD students whose papers have been accepted for delivery at the Conference. Successful applicants will also be exempt from the costs of registration.… Continue reading...
UHPH 2024, University of Sydney, July 11-13, 2024
Plan for Sydney (1948), by Reg Thornton. Source: State Library of NSWIn 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.… Continue reading...
The Global Urban History Project (GUHP) invites applications from graduate students and early career scholars in urban history to join one of four research and collaboration workshops affiliated with its continuing program of Dream Conversations in Urban History.
Selected applicants will participate in a series of events designed to facilitate intellectual engagement, offer feedback on research and writing, and promote peer and professional support.… Continue reading...
A family standing outside a tin shack called Wiloma during the Great Depression, New South Wales, 1932. NLA/Trove
Helen Dinmore, University of South Australia
Skyrocketing property prices and an impossible rental market have seen growing numbers of Australians struggling to find a place to live.… Continue reading...
The Yarragadee is an underground aquifer beneath the Perth metropolitan area. Laying in thick layers of sand and porous rock, the youngest water in the aquifer is about 600 years old, the oldest more than 35,000.The Whadjuk Noongar people believe the deepest aquifer is home to the spirit of the Waugal, or rainbow serpent.… Continue reading...
Dr James Lesh has published a government research report called “Place Name: “Moreland”, prepared for the City of Moreland, a municipal authority in the inner north of Melbourne. Adopting a historical archival approach, the report explores the links between the “Moreland” name and British Caribbean Slavery.… Continue reading...