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Professor Brendan Gleeson

BTRP, Hons (Melb), MURP (S Calif), PhD (Melb)

Environmental Planning
The Griffith School of Environment
Griffith University
Office: 0.28J N55 (Environment 1 - Nathan Campus)

Email: brendan.gleeson@griffith.edu.au
Ph: (07) 3735 5174
Fax: (07) 3735 4026

| Courses Taught | Research | Publications | Curriculum Vitae (acrobat format)

Courses Taught

The Graduate Certificate in Urban Management was developed in 2004. Courses taught include Urban & Regional Economics and Urban Management. Urban Management grasps the contemporary challenges facing public and private planners, policy makers, private sector managers and community advocates. It seeks to ensure the sustainable growth, development and governance of our cities.

Research Interests

Planning and urban governance
The political economy of planning
Social policy and the city
The geography of disability
Public land development
Environmental policy and theory
Transport and urban governance

Recent Publications

Books

Low, N.P. & Gleeson, B.J. (eds.) (2003) Making Urban Transport Sustainable, Palgrave/Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK), xx + 299pp.

Low, N.P., Gleeson, B.J., Radovic, D. & Green, R. (2004) The Green City, for UNSW Press, Sydney, 247pp.

Gleeson, B.J. Australian Heartlands: making space for hope in the suburbs, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, in press.

Articles

Gleeson, B.J., Darbas, T. & Lawson, S. (2004) ‘Governance, sustainability and recent Australian metropolitan strategies: a socio-theoretic analysis’, Urban Policy & Research, 22(4), 345-66.

Gleeson, B.J. ‘Resocialising space: towards a new geography of the public realm’, Social & Cultural Geography, forthcoming.

Gleeson, B.J. (2005) ‘Landscapes Apart: museums and Australian suburbia’, Queensland Review, 12(1)

Low, N.P., Brendan Gleeson, B. & Rush, R. (2005) ‘A multivalent conception of path dependence: The case of transport planning in Victoria, Australia, Environmental Sciences, forthcoming.

Baker, D.C., Sipe, N. & Gleeson. B., (2004) ‘The paradox of performance-based planning’, Journal of Planning Literature, forthcoming.

Last updated: 01 February 2006