I publish on housing, land, real estate and urban development. I write about the colonial histories of land, public housing, foreign real estate investment, the politics of urban development, participatory planning, platform real estate, and more. Some of my recent writing is available for download below.
BOOKS
Understanding Urbanism
1st year undergraduate textbook
Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architecture, Urban Geography, Urban Sociology, Urbanism, CITIES, URBAN, TRANSPORT, INFRASTRUCTURE
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The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital And Rights (read more)
Keywords – Settler Colonialism, Globalising Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Chinese Investment, Urban Politics, Geopolitics, Global Real Estate Industry
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The Globalisation of Real Estate: The Politics and Practice of Foreign Real Estate Investment (read more)
Keywords – Globalising Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Chinese Investment, Urban Politics, Geopolitics, Global Real Estate Industry
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Housing In 21st Century Australia: People, Practices And Policies (read more)
Chapter 1 – Housing In Australia: A New Century (read)
Chapter 14 – 21st Century Australian Housing: New Frontiers In The Asia-Pacific (download)
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Unsolicited urbanism: development monopolies, regulatory-technical fixes and planning-as-deal-making (download)
Keywords – Real estate, planning-as-deal-making, casino development, urban governance, unsolicited proposal
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Emplaced Displacement and Public Housing Redevelopment: From Physical Displacement to Social, Cultural, and Economic Replacement (download)
Keywords – Global Cities, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Geography, Redevelopment
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Value pluralism in urban planning (download)
Commentary on our value pluralism work.
Keywords – agonistic pluralism, Value Theory, Urban Planning, Urban Development
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Housing Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Importance of Housing Research During this Health Emergency (download)
Keywords – COVID-19, real estate, housing
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Towards a Critical Housing Studies Research Agenda on Platform Real Estate (download)
Keywords – Platform real estate, technology, real estate, proptech, realtech
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The Politics of Value in Urban Development: Valuing Conflict in Agonistic Pluralism (download)
Keywords – agonistic pluralism, Value Theory, Urban Planning, Urban Development
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Digital Housing and Renters: Disrupting the Australian Rental Bond System and Tenant Advocacy (download)
Keywords – Digital Technology, RealTech, Platform Capitalism, Gloabl Capitalism, Renting
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Cultural Platform Capitalism: Extracting Value from Cultural Asymmetries in RealTech (download)
Keywords – Digital Technology, RealTech, Platform Capitalism, Gloabl Capitalism
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Podcasts and Urban Studies: Notes from the Field; Sounds from the Studio (download)
Keywords – Podcast, Radio, Urban Planning, Urban studies, community radio; podcasting; sound; sonic geographies
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Podcasting and Urban Planning (download)
Keywords – Podcast, Radio, Urban Planning
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Australian Urban Geographies of Housing in the context of the rise of China in the “Asian Century” (download)
Keywords – Global Real Estate, Foreign Investment, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, Asian Century, China
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Tracing Resident Antagonisms in Urban Development: Agonistic Pluralism and Participatory Planning (download)
Keywords – Urban Planning, post-political, Participatory Planning, Urban Politics, Citizen Action
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Planning the Post‐Political City: Exploring Public Participation in the Contemporary Australian City (download)
Keywords – Urban Planning, post-political, Participatory Planning, Urban Politics, Citizen Action
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Property Speculation, Global Capital, Urban Planning and Financialisation: Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust Redux (download paper)
Keywords -Colonisation, FINANCIALISATION, COMMODIFICATION, HOUSING, Globalising Real Estate, Foreign CApital
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Geographies of Hyper-Commodified Housing: Foreign Capital, Market Activity and Housing Stress (download paper)
Keywords – FINANCIALISATION, COMMODIFICATION, HOUSING STRESS, Globalising Real Estate, Foreign Investment, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY
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Assemblage Theory and The Ontological Limitations of Speculative Realism (download paper)
Keywords – Assemblage Theory, Globalising Real Estate, Migration, Education, Foreign Investment, Technology
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Education, Real Estate, Immigration: Brokerage Assemblages and Asian Mobilities (download paper)
Keywords – Globalising Real Estate, Migration, Education, Foreign Investment, Chinese Investment, Technology, Global Real Estate and Education Industries
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Public Perceptions of Foreign and Chinese Real Estate Investment: Intercultural Relations in Global Sydney’ (download paper)
Keywords – Globalising Real Estate, Migration, Education, Foreign Investment, Chinese Investment, Technology, Global Sydney
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The Globalisation of Real Estate: The Politics And Practice Of Foreign Real Estate Investment (download paper)
Keywords – Globalising Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Chinese Investment, Urban Politics, Global Real Estate Industry
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The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy As A Zoning Technology: Analysing The Spatial And Temporal Dimensions Of Obsolescence (download paper).
Keywords – Global Cities, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Discourse Analysis, Geography, Urban Obsolescence
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The Politics of Foreign Investment in Australian Housing: Chinese Investors, Translocal Sales Agents and Local Resistance (download paper)
Keywords – Globalising Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Chinese Investment, Urban Politics, Global Real Estate Industry
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Place, Political Culture And Post-Green Ban Resistance: Public Housing In Millers Point, Sydney (download paper)
Keywords – Global Cities, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Globalisation, Green Ban, Urban Politics, Resistance
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Monitory Democracy As Citizen-driven Participatory Planning: The Urban Politics Of REDWatch In Sydney (download paper).
Keywords – Urban Planning, Monitory Democracy, Participatory Planning, Urban Politics, REDWatch, Citizen Action
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Global City Aspirations, Graduated Citizenship And Public Housing: Analysing The Consumer Citizenships Of Neoliberalism (download paper)
Keywords – Global Cities, Affordable Housing, Citizenship, Public Housing, Globalisation, Neoliberalism
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Inhabitance, Place-making And The Right To The City: Public Housing Redevelopment In Sydney (download paper)
Keywords – Right To The City, Global Cities, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Citizenship, Neoliberalism
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Televised Territorial Stigma: How Social Housing Tenants Experience The Fictional Media Representation Of Estates In Australia (download paper)
Keywords – Territorial Stigma, Media Analysis, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Housos
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The Poetics of Cartography and Habitation: Home as a Repository of Memories (download paper)
Keywords – Public Housing, Proust, Bachelard, Home, Cartography, Memory, Urban Redevelopment
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Research, Practice, And The Space Between: Care Of The Self Within Neoliberalised Institutions (download paper)
Keywords – Foucault, Care Of The Self, Action Research, Critical Refection, Reflexivity, Neoliberal
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REDWatch: Monitory Democracy As A Radical Approach To Citizen Participation In Planning In ‘Finding Hope In Unpromising Times’ (download paper)
Keywords – REDWatch, Urban Planning, Participation, Citizen Action, Neoliberalism
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Participatory, Technocratic and Neoliberal Planning: An Untenable Planning Governance Ménage à Trois (download paper)
Keywords – Urban Planning, Participation, Neoliberal, Technocratic, Citizen Action, Neoliberalism, Participatory Planning
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The Politics Of Space And Time Within Market-Centric Urban Policy: The Case Of The Bonnyrigg Living Communities Project (download paper)
Keywords – Global Cities, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Discourse Analysis, Geography, Urban Obsolescence, Geography
BOOK CHAPTERS
Uploading Real Estate: Home As A Digital, Global Commodity (download paper)
Keywords – Digital Technologies, Global Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Global Real Estate Industry, Real Estate Technology, Big Data, Small Data
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Becoming A Super-rich Foreign Real Estate Investor: Globalising Real Estate Data, Publications And Events (download paper)
Keywords – Global Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Global Real Estate Industry, Real Estate Technology, Real Estate Events, Chinese Investment
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Researching Territorial Stigma With Social Housing Tenants: Tenant-led Digital Media Production About People And Place (download paper)
Keywords -Territorial Stigma, Action Research, Public Housing, Social Housing, Methodology, Digital Storytelling
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The Real ‘Housos’; Reclaiming identity and place (download paper)
Keywords -Territorial Stigma, Action Research, Public Housing, Social Housing, Methodology, Digital Storytelling
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Urban And Social Planning Through Public-Private Partnership: The Case Of The Bonnyrigg Living Communities Project, Sydney Australia (download paper)
