My book Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia has now been released.
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analysis on heritage and history
My book Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia has now been released.
Read moreJames Lesh and Rebecca Madgin have co-edited the book collection People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation: Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places.
Read moreReview of Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture, by Ashley Paine, Susan Holden and John Macarthur, eds., Amsterdam, Valiz, 2020, 288 pp. ISBN: 978-94-92095-93-0.
Read moreJoin us at 6 pm on Wednesday 24 May 2023 at the University of Sydney for James Lesh speaking about his book ‘Values in Cities’.
Read moreYou’ve probably heard that Melbourne has overtaken Sydney as Australia’s most populous city. This demographic milestone has come about earlier than predicted due to the re-drawing of statistical boundaries, somewhat deflating the weightiness of this momentous moment. But Melbourne overtaking Sydney in population terms is still history making. Since Sydney first overtook Melbourne in population around 1901, both cities have swelled ten-fold to almost 5-million people today. These evolutions speak to enduring contests around cities and rivalries.
Read moreThis book review of ‘The Invention of Melbourne: A Baroque Archbishop and a Gothic Architect’ and ‘The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and His Legacies in Colonial Melbourne’ is published in History Australia, 2022.
Read moreMy report on “Place Name “Moreland”, prepared for the City of Moreland, in the inner north of Melbourne, has received the Victorian Community History Award, Small History Publication Project, 2022.
Read moreAdopting new perspectives won’t only preserve our historic buildings and places by enabling us to shape them for today’s needs. It will also mean urban heritage can contribute to cities becoming more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.
Read moreHow was Australia’s heritage mafia established? To answer, let’s unpack urban heritage in 1990s Australia.
Read moreChaired by Professor Philip Goad (University of Melbourne), join Sharon Veale (GML Heritage), Maddi Miller (University of Melbourne) and Dr James Lesh (Deakin University) for a discussion panel on urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century Australia.
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