Nicholas A. Phelps
@TheBigNA
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Chair of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
Joined February 2021
Looking forward to hosting a set of talks on Imagination in/for the Built Environment at University of Melbourne's new Global Centre in Delhi, India.
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Dave Valler and I reflect on the abject low point in strategic spatial planning reached in England in a new paper. Available open access.
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My most recent paper in JAPA compares the idealism of planners with the realism of developers and the opportunism of politicians in the urban development process. And it's open access!.
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Recent talk at Queens University Belfast. The need for new spatial planning vocabulary.
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The final seminar in our Urban Studies Foundation-funded series on 'peripheral centralities ' was last week with early career academics. Big thanks to @planographer and @rkeil and the over 60 presenters we have had across the series in virtual space and in Melbourne and Toronto.
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See my commentary 'Not waving but drowning' on the Harstaad et al paper 'Diversifying the compact city' in the Dialogues in Human Geograpphy forum.
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Julie Miao, Andy Wood and I have organised sessions at the up coming AAG conference on "When was urban entrepreurialism" following on from this piece in Dialogues in Human Geography.
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Boxing Day came a little late but a pleasant surprise for the new year.
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RT @Planographer: The #Bullsbrook quarantine facility, located in outer suburban #Perth, is a contemporary example of a #PeripheralCentrali….
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RT @Planographer: #PeripheralCentralities: Present & Planned.Seminar 3B (via Zoom).Thurs 15 Dec, 2022.@TheBigNA @rkeil @UWAresearch @IRASP_….
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A new paper by Julie Miao and myself in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers tries to distinguish some of the peculiarity of the expansion of Chinese cities.
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Just took receipt of a few copies of my latest book - a celebration of urban planning. Now to give them away to a few folk now that lockdown here is over.
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Pleased to announce that myself, Paul Maginn (UWA) and Roger Keil (York University) will be running a seminar/webinar series on 'Peripheral centralities: lost, past, present and future' (2021-2022) funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.
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Welcome to my inaugural tweet! Reluctantly and with some trepidation I have stepped into this whole new world. A more substantive tweet to follow shortly!.
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