Dr James Lesh
Cities, history and heritage
Adopting interdisciplinary perspectives, James researches heritage preservation and urban conservation for its capacity to enhance our cities and urban lives. He has published widely.
James is a sessional lecturer at the University of Melbourne and a research fellow of the Menzies Australia Institute, King's College London.
Illuminated Flinders Street Station,
early-twentieth century, Melbourne, Australia,
State Library of Victoria.
- Academic conference review: Remaking cities: the fourteenth Australasian urban history/planning history conference, Melbourne, 2018. By Lauren Pikó, Victoria Kolankiewicz and James Lesh.
- Federation Square heritage council submission
- BOOK REVIEW: City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia (NewSouth, 2016).
- The Awfulisers of Melbourne
- Heritage value is in the eye of the beholder: why Fed Square deserves protection
- Seminar: Heritage preservation, urban transformation and everyday life in the twentieth-century Australian city.
