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0000-0002-8687-7297
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University of Melbourne
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RMIT University
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Urban Policy | Transport Planning | Community Planning | Urban and Regional Planning | Policy and Administration
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society |
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Publications
Between virtue and profession: Theorising the rise of professionalised public participation practitioners
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-06-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14730952221107148
Abstract: Participatory planning practice is changing in response to the rise of specially trained public participation practitioners who intersect with but are also distinct from planners. These practitioners are increasingly being professionalised through new standards of competence defined by their industry bodies. The implications of this are not well accounted for in empirical studies of participatory planning, nor in the theoretical literature that seeks to understand both the potential and problems of more deliberative approaches to urban decision-making. In this paper, we revisit the sociological literature on the professions and use it to critically interrogate an observed tension between the ‘virtues’ of public participation (justice, equity and democracy) and efforts to consolidate public participation practice into a distinct profession that interacts with but also sits outside of professional planning.
Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-02-2023
DOI: 10.1177/00420980211067906
Abstract: In this commentary, we argue that augmented concepts and research methods are needed to comprehend hybrid urban governance reconfigurations that benefit market actors but eschew competition in favour of deal-making between elite state and private actors. Fuelled by financialisation and in response to planning conflict are regulatory reforms that legitimise opaque alliances in service of infrastructure and urban development projects. From a specific city (Sydney, Australia) we draw upon one such reform – Unsolicited Proposals – to point to a broader landscape of hybrid urban governance, its reconfigurations of power and potential effect on cities. Whereas neoliberal governance promotes competition and views the state and private sectors as distinct, hybrid urban governance leverages state monopoly power and abjures market competition, instead endorsing high-level public–private coordination, technical and financial expertise and confidential deal-making over major urban projects. We scrutinise how Unsolicited Proposals normalise this approach. Commercial-in-confidence protection and absent tender processes authorise a narrow constellation of influential private and public actors to preconfigure outcomes without oversight. Such reforms, we argue, consolidate elite socio-spatial power, jeopardise city function and lify corruption vulnerabilities. To theorise hybrid urban governance at the intersection of neoliberalism and Asia-Pacific state-capitalism, we offer the concepts of coercive monopoly (where market entry is closed, without opportunity to compete) and de jure collusion (where regulation reforms codify informal alliances among elites connected across government and corporate and consultancy worlds). We call for urban scholarship to pay closer attention to public–private hybridisation in governance, scrutinising regulatory mechanisms that consecrate deal-making and undermine the public interest.
The post‐politics of transport: establishing a new meeting ground for transport politics
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-11-2017
Planning the post‐political city: exploring public participation in the contemporary Australian city
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-04-2018
Platforms of Change and Interstitial Spaces
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-08-2019
From Transit “Garden” Suburbs to Corporate Tollways
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-2022
Infrastructure Governance in Times of Crises: A Research Agenda for Australian Cities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2022
Beyond the post‐political: is public participation in Australian cities at a turning point?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-09-2018
A Systematic Literature Review of Infrastructure Governance: Cross-sectoral Lessons for Transformative Governance Approaches
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-07-2023
DOI: 10.1177/08854122221112317
Abstract: Infrastructure governance has emerged as a subject of critical interest in the current ‘infrastructure turn’ whereby fragmented governance approaches sit in tension with complex demands for infrastructure transformations within contexts of multiple intersecting crises. To understand the state of the literature and inform ongoing debates, a systematic review method is used to interrogate a large body of infrastructure governance literature across sectoral boundaries. This review identifies a range of literature gaps prevailing in the areas of infrastructure governance on unceded First Nations land, the societal end goals of infrastructure, and understandings and applications of integrated governance.
Infrastructure in times of exception: Unravelling the discourses, governance reforms and politics in ‘Building Back Better’ from COVID-19
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/23996544221094678
Abstract: In seeking to counter adverse economic impacts resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments quickly announced major infrastructure stimulus packages alongside a series of governance reforms to speed delivery. Despite significant differences between political, institutional and policy contexts of countries, clear trends emerged, most notably discourses of promise promoting the possibilities of state-led infrastructure allied to reforms to expedite delivery. Using case studies of Australia, Aotearoa-New Zealand and the UK, we draw upon theories of postpolitics and states of exception to explain how these approaches comprise a form of infrastructuralism that both elevates the criticality of infrastructure at the same time as depoliticising infrastructure planning. We argue that the promises of Building Back Better did not constitute the radical rupture from earlier practices initially promised and that in future crises we need to resist the closure of political space that typically accompanies emergency measures and ask ‘what infrastructure, for whom and where?’
Planning Solidarity? From Silence to Refusal
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2021
Under the strategic radar and outside planning's ‘spaces of interest’: knockdown rebuild and the changing suburban form of Australia's cities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Australian Mega Transport Business Cases: Missing Costs and Benefits
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-09-2019
Mobility justice and accessible public transport networks for people with intellectual disability
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-11-2020
Investigating the Knowledge interface between Stakeholder Engagement and Plan-Making
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2010
DOI: 10.1068/A43164
Abstract: The ‘ideal deliberative procedure’ provides structure to the process of stakeholder deliberation, yet creates a tension with the formal processes of strategic plan-making. This paper examines process design by drawing upon communicative planning theory, and the rational comprehensive model and deliberative democracy literature. In the context of metropolitan strategic spatial plan-making, the aim of this paper is to examine how the knowledge interface between the process of stakeholder engagement and the process of plan-making enables or inhibits implementation of the plan. A retrospective study examining the development of two metropolitan strategic spatial plans: Greater Perth's the Network City plan and Greater Vancouver's the Livable Region Strategic Plan is provided. It is revealed that the engagement of the planners, the public and the politicians occurs within formal stakeholder engagement ‘events’ positioned at different stages of the plan-making process. This paper reveals that the deliberation among the professional planners and the politicians at the process design stage steers the plan-making process in a manner that retains its legitimacy and creates a more implementable plan.
Governance of Future Urban Mobility: A Research Agenda
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2019
The Point is Still to Change it
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-08-2021
Limits and potentials to deliberative engagement in highly regulated planning systems: Norm development within fixed rules
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2014
Urban Policy and Research – A New Chapter
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
The Gender Gap: A Review of Publishing Practices in Urban Policy and Research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-03-2022
Adapting the deliberative democracy ‘template’ for planning practice
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.3828/TPR.2014.20
Is there a good governance model for the delivery of contemporary transport policy and practice? An examination of Melbourne and Perth
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2012
De-politicising and re-politicising transport infrastructure futures
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-04-2022
DOI: 10.1177/23996544221092920
Abstract: The planning for future transport and its infrastructure is deeply political. Yet, how we understand re-politicisation, and what those efforts tell us about what is political in the planning for future cities, remains under explored. One lens through which to explore these acts is to consider the role of urban coalitions in drawing attention to the dominant politics of planning and setting the ground for the re-politicisation of transport infrastructure futures. Drawing on the work of post-foundational scholars Mouffe and Rancière, this paper examines the interplay between de-politicisation and re-politicisation and how two urban coalitions negotiated this landscape in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area during a sustained period of contestation surrounding the proposal of new transport infrastructure. Through this analysis, this paper draws on in-depth interviews with coalition members, transport planners, politicians and engaged citizens to illustrate how these urban coalitions produced a ‘collective will’ and a struggle towards a ‘consensus cure’ in their re-politicising actions. This paper reveals how coalition-led re-politicisation establishes the grounds for the politics to shift on contested future transport proposals and offers insight into the incremental and oftentimes incomplete ways re-politicisation nurtures transformational change.
The case for ‘public’ transport in the age of automated mobility
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Disruptive Urbanism? Implications of the ‘Sharing Economy’ for Cities, Regions, and Urban Policy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2018
“Shared Language” Or “Straitjacket”? The Hidden Costs of Legitimising Participation Through Standardised Frameworks
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-05-2023
Achieving Legitimacy Through Deliberative Plan-Making Processes—Lessons for Metropolitan Strategic Planning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2012
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Related Funding Activities
Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210101391
Start Date: 10-2021
End Date: 10-2025
Amount: $339,871.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100364
Start Date: 06-2014
End Date: 12-2017
Amount: $392,815.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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