Areas of interest – Urbanism
Urban and regional planning research has been established in the school since the late 1940s, covering a wide range of subject areas, including international studies with a focus on Southeast Asia and the Pacific; metropolitan planning; housing studies; regional policy and many other fields of policy and development.
A recently established urban design program provides additional opportunities to conduct research into the design dimensions of urban form.
The School is also home to the Cities Network http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/citiesnetwork/
and Urban Housing Lab http://sydney.edu.au/urban-housing-lab,
and has strong links with the Festival of Urbanism http://www.festivalofurbanism.com,
Henry Halloran Trust http://sydney.edu.au/halloran.
For further information contact Professor Nicole Gurran (
Areas of research interest
- urban planning and regional comparative planning system
- collaborative environmental planning and management
- planning for environmental sustainability
- planning for housing accessibility, diversity and affordability
- coastal protection and growth
- informal urbanism
- social and environmental justice
- community forestry
- political ecology
- natural resource management
- sustainable development and climate change
- urban policy and planning locally and internationally
- suburban economic development
- poverty and inequality
- rural communities
- community development and sustainable planning
- urban planning research and education
- gated communities
- tourism development in Pacific urban planning
development aid policy - environmental impact assessments
- housing policy in developing countries
- Indigenous settlement and land tenure issues
- geographic information systems
- economic development
- planning support systems
- visualisation
- commuting behaviour
- spatial decision making.