Publications – Page 2 – heritage.city by james lesh

Academic conference review: Remaking cities: the fourteenth Australasian urban history/planning history conference, Melbourne, 2018. By Lauren Pikó, Victoria Kolankiewicz and James Lesh.

12 January 2019 admin Publications

Almost one hundred urban and planning historians and practitioners met in Melbourne at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University for the fourteenth biannual Australasian Urban History/Planning History (AUHPH) conference between 31 January and 2 February 2018, hosted by RMIT’s Centre for Urban Research.

BOOK REVIEW: City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia (NewSouth, 2016).

16 November 2018 admin Publications

Here is my book review of City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia by Graeme Davison. This review was published in Urban History journal in 2017, and reflects both on Davison’s important book and his broader contribution to the practice of urban history.

Heritage value is in the eye of the beholder: why Fed Square deserves protection

10 August 2018 admin Publications

The proposed redesign of Federation Square includes demolishing the iconic Yarra building for an Apple store.

Apple store has no place in the people’s square

19 February 2018 admin Publications

FEDERATION Square CEO Jonathan Tribe told us in these pages that the square faces significant challenges. Apparently, its buildings are deteriorating, its visitor numbers are in free fall and its visitor experience is old-fashioned.

Apple is exploiting the power of its brand to claim an important part of our city

20 December 2017 admin Publications

Five days before Christmas, news has dropped that a section of Federation Square has been given to Apple for its flagship Melbourne store. The Yarra Building will be demolished, and its tenants, including the Koorie Heritage Trust, relocated to make way for a globally familiar glass cube design.

Exhibition Review: A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne

13 April 2017 admin Publications

My review of the exhibition A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne, presented at the City of Melbourne Gallery. It originally appeared in the Melbourne Historical Journal (vol. 44).

Satirising the Australian City: Bruce Petty

3 December 2016 admin Publications

Bruce Petty was awarded the gong for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Journalism’ at the annual Australian Walkley journalism awards this evening. I first came across Petty as part of my research into Australian urban history. From the 1960s onwards, his political satire appeared across various periodicals including the Bulletin magazine, the Australian and the Age newspapers.

Preserving cities: how ‘trendies’ shaped Australia’s urban heritage

4 November 2016 admin Publications

An article on how ‘trendies’ in the 1960s-70s changed how we think about the inner suburbs of Australia’s cities.

Sketching the National Trust of Victoria

17 October 2016 admin Publications

Two thousand and sixteen marks the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the National Trust of Victoria. Drawing from my research into heritage in Victoria, I wrote the following article for the National Trust of Victoria’s special anniversary magazine.

Brisbane and Gold Coast urban heritage in the early 1970s (and today)

4 October 2016 admin Events, Publications

In late January, a hundred or so urbanists descended on the Gold Coast for the 13th Australian Urban History Planning History (UHPH) Conference. Attendees included academics, historians, planners and practitioners, who delivered a range of papers on the Australian city, from pre-colonial times to the present-day. Hosted every two years—the next in 2018 is in Melbourne—this is the largest Australasian conference of its kind.