My book Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia has now been released.
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Category: Publications
Book on People-Centred Heritage Conservation
James Lesh and Rebecca Madgin have co-edited the book collection People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation: Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places.
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Release of “Report on the Place Name: Moreland”
My report on “Place Name “Moreland”, prepared for the City of Moreland, in the inner north of Melbourne, has now been released. Adopting a historical archival approach, the report explores the links between the “Moreland” name and British Caribbean Slavery.
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Academic conference review: Remaking cities: the fourteenth Australasian urban history/planning history conference, Melbourne, 2018. By Lauren Pikó, Victoria Kolankiewicz and James Lesh.
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.
Read moreBook Review: Shane Ewen, What is Urban History? (Cambridge: Polity, 2016)
Last year I published a book review of What is Urban History? by Shane Ewen in the Melbourne Historical Journal (vol. 43). Since then, reviews have appeared on the LSE blog and in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, amongst other places. Ewen was also recently interviewed on the excellent German based Global Urban History blog. Written for an Australian audience, my review is republished below.
Read moreLockout laws repeat centuries-old mistake of denying value of cities as messy places
Sydney’s lockout laws, as well as current and proposed restrictions in other Australian cities including Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Newcastle, are perhaps more about regulating people’s behaviours in cities than about liquor licensing.
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