CONVENERS – Dallas Rogers (2017 – present), Vera Xia (2022- present), and Xiao Ma (2020 – 2022)
The Cities Writing Group is a monthly university-wide HDR/ECR urban studies writing group, which has been running since 2017. The group is attended by Honours, PhDs and ECRs from sociology, geography, architecture, and urban planning and design from across the University of Sydney. HDR/ECR research that has passed through the Cities Writing Group has been published in leading journals and won multiple awards.
Published
The following are some of the publications enriched by the discussions of the group:
Dallas Rogers (2022) Nautico-imperialism and settler-colonialism: water and land in the New South Wales colony, Australian Geographer
Xiao Ma et al. (forthcoming) Foreign real estate, international education and migration as a family strategy, in R Ronald & A Rowan (eds) Families, Housing and Property Wealth in a Neoliberal World, London: Routledge.
Xiao Ma et al. (2021) Chinese property developers after the decline in foreign real estate investment in Sydney, Australia, Housing Studies.
Deepti Prasad, Tooran Alizdeh and Robyn Downling (2021) Multiscalar Smart City Governance in India, Geoforum.
Caitlin Buckle (2020) Migrants’ encounters of a lifestyle destination: From coastal idyll to activated city, Geographical Research.
Deepti Prasad and Tooran Alizadeh (2020) What Makes Indian Cities Smart? A Policy Analysis of Smart Cities Mission, Telematics and Informatics
Yuting Zhang and Nicole Gurran (2020) Understanding the Share Housing Sector: A Geography of Group Housing Supply in Metropolitan Sydney, Urban Policy and Research.
Isabel Rousset (2020) The Industrious, the Laboring, and the Sunken: Berlin’s Mietskaserne and the Housing Question, Journal of Urban History.
Xiao Ma (2020) Chinese housing policy, capital switching and the foreign real estate investment ‘boom and bust’ in Australia, International Journal of Housing Policy.
Alistair Sisson, Dallas Rogers and Chris Gibson (2019). Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation: Sydney boom, Sydney bust redux. Australian Geographer.
Cameron Logan and Anna Simanowsky (2019) Unsettled: The Afterlife of the Newcastle Post Office, Fabrications.
Alistair Sisson and Paul Maginn (2018) “Reclaiming Northbridge”: Urban (Dis)Order and Territorial Stigmatisation in Perth’s Night Time Economy precinct, Urban Policy and Research.
Denis Byrne (2017). Remembering the Elizabeth Bay reclamation and the Holocene sunset in Sydney Harbour. Environmental Humanities.
Working Papers
November 2021
The investor-occupier effect – architectural quality and apartment design in Sydney, Australia
Xiao Ma, PhD candidate, School of of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
Greta Werner, PhD candidate, FASS, The University of Sydney
October 2021
Nautico-imperialism and settler-colonialism: water and land in the New South Wales colony
Dr Dallas Rogers, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
September 2021
Counter-urban migration and the search for an ideal home in coastal Australia
Dr Caitlin Buckle, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
August 2021
Who grows how? Governance in urban gardening research
Kristina Ulm, PhD candidate, The University of New South Wales
July 2021
Smart City Place-based Outcomes in India: bubble urbanism and socio-spatial fragmentation
Deepti Prasad, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
June 2021
Performing and resisting neoliberalism: pro-nightlife activist discourses in Sydney
Dr. Peta Wolifson, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
May 2021
Social housing as solidarity in Vienna and Sydney
Greta Werner, PhD candidate, FASS, The University of Sydney
April 2021
Chinese property developers after the decline in foreign real estate investment in Sydney Australia
Xiao Ma, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
March 2021
Intersections between housing and health vulnerabilities: informal share housing in Sydney and the health risks of COVID-19
Dr Caitlin Buckle, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
February 2021
Smart City Planning and Informality in India
Deepti Prasad, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
November 2020
Adapting holiday accommodation: resilience against the impacts to tourism of the 2019-20 bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Caitlin Buckle, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
October 2020
Turning Sydney’s ‘Housing Supply Tap’
Greta Werner, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
September 2020
Evaluation of experiential attributes of shopping malls in two types: enclosed versus open-air
Chunrong Hao, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
August 2020
Housing the Classless Society: Genealogies of German Modernism
Dr. Isabel Rousset, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
July 2020
Migrants’ encounters of a lifestyle destination: from coastal idyll to ‘activated’ city
Dr Caitlin Buckle, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
June 2020
Multiscalar governance in India
Deepti Prasad, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
May 2020
Emergent Urban Agricultural Practices and Attitudes in Planned Residential Areas in China
Yuan Wei, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
April 2020
Chinese housing policy, capital switching and the foreign real estate investment ‘boom and bust’ in Australia
Xiao Ma, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
March 2020
PhD Chapter 2 – Social housing and social theory
Greta Werner, PhD candidate, FASS, The University of Sydney
February 2020
Uncovering Structural Inequalities: Adopting a relational perspective for understanding urban (in)formality
Dr Pranitha Shrestha, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
January 2020
Understanding the Share Housing Sector: A Geography of Group Housing Supply in Metropolitan Sydney
Yuting Zhang, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
September 2019
What makes India Cities Smart?
Deepti Prasad, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
August 2019
Of Spectres and Poltergeists: The Hauntological Politics of Urban Data
Dr Jathan Sadowski, Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
July 2019
The Industrious, the Laboring, and the Sunken: Berlin’s Mietskaserne and Lower-Class Reform
Dr Isabel Rousset, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney School
June 2019
The accommodating state: social housing in Vienna
Greta Werner, PhD candidate, FASS, The University of Sydney
May 2019
Job Choice, Location and Mobility among Rural Migrants Living in Public Rental Housing in Chongqing, China
Weijie Hu, PhD candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, The University of Sydney
April 2019
PhD Chapter
Pratichi Chatterjee, PhD candidate, Geosciences, The University of Sydney
March 2019
PhD Chapter
Alistair Sisson, PhD candidate, Geosciences, The University of Sydney
February 2019
Foreign real estate, international education and migration as a family strategy
Xiao Ma, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
October 2018
The Emergence of Liveability in Melbourne’s Planning
Pash Tzaikos, Honours Candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
August 2018
The Transformation of Desert Settlements in Inner Mongolia: Tradition, Politics and Identity
Yushu Liang, PhD candidate, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China
July 2018
Remembering the Elizabeth Bay reclamation and the Holocene sunset in Sydney Harbour
Dr Dennis Byrne, Western Sydney University
June 2018
The Afterlife of a Civic Building: Newcastle Post Office
Dr Cameron Logan, School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
May 2018
Reshaping lived space in Waterloo
Pratichi Chatterjee, PhD candidate, Geosciences, The University of Sydney
April 2018
Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation: Sydney boom, Sydney bust redux
Alistair Sisson, PhD candidate, Geosciences, The University of Sydney
March 2018
This meeting we discussed writing plans for 2018
February 2018
PhD research proposal – Foreign real estate investment boom and bust, Chinese property developers after bust
Xiao Ma, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
November 2017
WestConnex, clashing visions and strategic action
Greta Werner, PhD candidate, FASS, The University of Sydney
October 2017
“Reclaiming Northbridge”: Urban (Dis)Order and Territorial Stigmatisation in Perth’s Night Time Economy precinct
Alistair Sisson, PhD candidate, Geosciences, The University of Sydney
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