Reading List

Bibliography

Websites

Papers

Following on from the Honours project's concerns with tenure and accessibility, the PhD looked into housing as a basic provision and a site from which action for sustainability can go forth, and as a fundamental component and determinant of urban form. I also investigated the interface and overlap between radical democracy and urban ecology as manifest and highlighted by the home.

This site provides links to images from my fieldwork with Pinakarri in Fremantle, Western Australia and Christie Walk in Adelaide, South Australia. There are links to an exceptionally brief reading list of my current and some longstanding favourites and to the full bibliography. There is a page of links to other useful websites (not by any means exhaustive, more a reflection of particular areas of inquiry) and to papers I've written.

I completed the doctorate by papers, so links to those works also appear here. The first, looking at new ecological parameters of urban sustainability in Australian housing initiatives, is available in volume 37(4) of Geoforum. The second focuses on ecocity and feminist urban design concerns and is available in volume 38(4) of Antipode. The third, in co-authorship with Dominique Hes at RMIT, presents an overview of sustainability and barriers to this in the Australian housing industry and is under review at Housing Studies. The fourth, a fine-grained exploration of two of the case studies and of dominant Australian planning paradigms, is available online at Australian Geographer, 36(3): 333-350. The final paper focuses on models and concepts of the affordability and ownership of housing and land and is under review at Acme. For earlier unpublished papers and conference papers, click on Papers on the left.

The thesis has been examined, corrected and was submitted in its final form in early October. Formal acknowledgment of the doctorate should come through mid-November. Now that the thesis is out of the way and Oliver has arrived safely, this website will be updated and mercifully redesigned care of Kay's far superior design skills, as the volume of content is getting unwieldy in this clunky old hand-coded form. So we can expect CSS, a blog and all sorts of exciting things. Meanwhile, please email me with any outdated links, as I'm sure there's a few by now.

Onwards and upwards.

17 October 2006