Monash University in Melbourne, Australia has two PhD scholarships available for domestic or international applicants in Urban Planning and Design. The PhDs will contribute to a research project funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) called Remaking Post-industrial Plans: Urban Industrial Zoning Past and Future.… Continue reading...
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Camden History Notes, a blog, has posted a review of the AUHPHG 2018 conference at RMIT in Melbourne:
‘Remaking Cities’, a conference with a heady mix of urban delights31st January – 2nd February 2018
Remaking Cities
The 14th Urban History Planning History (UHPH) Conference
RMIT University, Swanston Academic Building, Melbourne
The 14th Urban History Planning History (UHPH) conference will be held in Melbourne in 2018, and the conference theme is inspired by Melbourne as an exemplar of cities that are continually re-made: as a centre of manufacturing, as a city built on land and infrastructure speculation, and as a place that has been re-made over the long-established land-based practices of the Kulin nation.… Continue reading...
The proceedings of February’s UHPH conference are now available HERE
Eve made significant contributions to our understanding of the modern urban and planning histories of Darwin. She passed away in August 2014 following complications from emergency heart surgery.
She was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied graphic design, working in London in the early 1960s then Spain to the early 1970s.… Continue reading...
Pat Troy on the legacy of Tom Uren, who died last week.
In the summer months David Nichols and Elizabeth Taylor present a one-hour talk program on Melbourne public radio 3RRR, known as The Urbanists. Recent guests have included David Wadelton of the Northcote Hysterical Society, Dr. Ruth Lane of Monash University talking about hard rubbish and ‘geographies of waste’, Assoc.… Continue reading...
Registrations are now being accepted for the 12th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference (UHPH) at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, 2–5 February 2014
Conference website: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fad/research/uhph2014
Keynotes: Kevin Prime (Ngati Hine) and Bill Gammage (AUS)
The open call for visiting scholars for Erasmus Mundus TEMA [Territoires européens (civilisation, nation, région, ville): identité et développement] has been extended until 15 June. It is envisaged for experienced scholars as well as for those in early stage of their career from non-EU countries.… Continue reading...
Special issue of Fabrications – Call for papers
Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand
Volume 23 number 1 will be a themed issue, ‘Competitions and Capitals’, in recognition of Canberra’s centenary in 2013.
Announcement: Call for Papers for Fabrications 23:1 closes 1 November 2012.… Continue reading...