I publish on the relationships between housing poverty and wealth, globalising urban space, urban planning and citizen action. Some of my recent writing is available for download below.

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BOOKS

The Geopolitics of Real Estate: Reconfiguring Property, Capital And Rights

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)

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JOURNAL ARTICLES

The Politics of Value in Urban Development: Valuing Conflict in Agonistic Pluralism (download)

Keywords – agonistic pluralism, Value Theory, Urban Planning, Urban Development

 

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

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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)

Keywords – Urban Planning, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Neoliberalism, Geography, Urban Redevelopment

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INDUSTRY ARTICLES

Community Engagement, Participatory Planning and the City (download). Essay for Inner City Voice.

 

Keywords – Planning Politics, Urban Planning, PARTICIPATORY PLANNING

A conflict over how land is imagined and used (download). Essay for the 40th Anniversary of Inner Sydney Voice

Keywords – Land Politics, Urban Planning, Affordable Housing, Cultural Diversity

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Foreign Investment In Australian Real Estate: A Question Of Housing Equity, Not Investor Identity (download)

Keywords – Global Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Affordable Housing, Cultural Diversity

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Is Housing Affordability a Foreign or Domestic Investment Problem? (download)

Keywords – Global Real Estate, Foreign Investment, Affordable Housing, Cultural Diversity

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Tenant Participation, Social Housing And Democracy: Tensions Between Expectations And Realities (download)

Keywords – Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Citizenship, Neoliberalism, Tenant Participation

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Community Participation: The Real Stuff Of Community Engagement (download)

Keywords – Urban Planning, Affordable Housing, Public Housing, Citizenship, Neoliberalism, Tenant Participation

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Poverty Porn and Housing: How We Produce Housing and Neighbourhood Stigma (download)

Keywords – Poverty Porn, Public Housing, Social Housing, Media