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Road to nowhere? (on the Eastern Freeway heritage listing) January 15, 2020
How can a place be heritage-listed after 17 years? What it means for Melbourne’s Fed Square August 27, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: City Life: The New Urban Australia By Seamus O’Hanlon. (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018.) August 9, 2019
Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision July 14, 2019
“I’ve just discovered my building is covered in flammable cladding” March 24, 2019
Once a building is destroyed, can the loss of a place like the Corkman be undone? March 12, 2019
Academic conference review: Remaking cities: the fourteenth Australasian urban history/planning history conference, Melbourne, 2018. By Lauren Pikó, Victoria Kolankiewicz and James Lesh. January 11, 2019
Federation Square heritage council submission December 14, 2018
BOOK REVIEW: City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia (NewSouth, 2016). November 15, 2018
Heritage value is in the eye of the beholder: why Fed Square deserves protection August 10, 2018

history.city blog

Road to nowhere? (on the Eastern Freeway heritage listing) January 15, 2020
How can a place be heritage-listed after 17 years? What it means for Melbourne’s Fed Square August 27, 2019
BOOK REVIEW: City Life: The New Urban Australia By Seamus O’Hanlon. (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018.) August 9, 2019
Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision July 14, 2019

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urban history and heritage conservation. @Sydney_Arch.

When international colleagues say, well the #BurraCharter means fabric is not fetishised within Aussie heritage regimes, here is the case study to demonstrate the tremendous gulf between theory and application:

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A case study in the failure of Australian heritage regimes to move beyond a c20th model of architectural authenticity and integrity and fabric to embrace the fuller human dimensions which make a heritage place:

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