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Prof

Kim Dovey

Chair Of Architecture & Urban Design
Architecture, Building and Planning
URBAN
INFORMALITY
MORPHOLOGY
WALKABILITY
PLACE
ARCHITECTURE
DESIGN
PLANNING
social sciences
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Kim Dovey

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Politics of public space
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects from 13 for Kim Dovey.

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TEMPORARY AND TACTICAL URBANISM: MAPPING ASSEMBLAGES IN AGILE PUBLIC SPACE

This project aims to use innovative mapping and analytical tools to investigate new, highly dynamic urban design and planning approaches tha..

2018 - 2022
Completed
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Re-Emerging Melbourne

2016 - 2017
Completed
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Intensifying Places: Transit-Oriented Urban Design for Resilient Australian Cities

The population of Australian cities is rising sharply at precisely the time we also need to achieve dramatic reductions in carbon emissions...

2010 - 2016
Completed
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Intensifying Places: Transit-Oriented Urban Design for Resilient Australian Cities

The population of Australian cities is rising sharply at precisely the time we also need to achieve dramatic reductions in carbon emissions...

2010 - 2016
Completed
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FORMS OF INFORMALITY: Urban Design and Planning of Informal Settlements

2015 - 2015
Completed
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TRANSIT FOR ALL - BETTER STATIONS AND ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE

2012 - 2014
Completed
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TRANSIT FOR ALL - BETTER STATIONS AND ACCESS INFRASTRUCTURE

2012 - 2014
Completed
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Planning the creative city: reconciling global strategies with local subcultures

Increasing land values in all major Australian cities are placing pressure on local creative initiatives. Displacement of small cultural pro..

2009 - 2012
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Smart Green Schools: Educational and Environmental Outcomes of Innovation in School Building Design

The research touches upon many of the key National Research Priorities. Children spend a large proportion of their waking hours within a sch..

2007 - 2011
Completed
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Smart Green Schools: Educational and Environmental Outcomes of Innovation in School Building Design

The research touches upon many of the key National Research Priorities. Children spend a large proportion of their waking hours within a sch..

2008 - 2011
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

9

Research Grant

3

Internal Research Grant

1

Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 232 for Kim Dovey.

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Harnessing settlement re-informalization: morphogenesis of on-site upgrading at Sitio Pajo

Kim Dovey, Redento B Recio

Journal article  |  2023  |  HABITAT INTERNATIONAL

On-site community-based upgrading is now widely accepted as the only sustainable pathway for redevelopment of substandard informal..

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Urban villages in China and India: parallels and differences in the village extension process

Matthijs van Oostrum, Kim Dovey

Journal article  |  2022  |  URBAN RESEARCH & PRACTICE

Urbanizing villages are erstwhile rural villages that are spatially enveloped and are characterized by their dual relation to the ..

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The spatial logic of informal street vending in Manila: an assemblage approach

Kim Dovey, Redento B Recio, Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2022  |  SPACE AND POLITY

While informal street vending is defined by its location in urban public space, the spatialities of street vending are often reduc..

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Extremes of mixed-use architecture: a spatial analysis of vertical functional mix in Dhaka

Fatema Meher Khan, Elek Pafka, Kim Dovey

Journal article  |  2022  |  City, Territory and Architecture

The concept of mixed-use is now well-established as an urban design and planning principle that adds to the vitality, walkability ..

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Morphogenesis of contemporary informal settlement in Chile

Victor Alegria, Kim Dovey

Journal article  |  2022  |  URBAN DESIGN INTERNATIONAL

Despite a massive investment in subsidized housing, informal settlement remains a significant aspect of urban development in Chile..

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Introduction

Quentin Stevens, Kim Dovey

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Futures

Q Stevens, K Dovey

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Temporary and Tactical Urbanism: (Re)Assembling Urban Space

Q Stevens, K Dovey

Book  |  2022

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such ..

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Capacities

K Dovey

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Introduction

Q Stevens, K Dovey

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Keyword Analysis

Urban and Regional Planning
Expanding Knowledge
Construction Planning
Architecture
Construction Design
Human Geography
Heritage
Tourism Services
Arts
Understanding Past Societies

News

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What next for parklets? It doesn't have to be a permanent switch back to parking

Kim Dovey, Merrick Morley, Quentin Stevens

Outdoor dining on former parking spaces – generally known as parklets – has proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reduced demand for p..

May 3, 2021
conversation Article
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'Forced' evictions eat away at a Manila community as developer spares the golf course next door

Redento B. Recio, Crystal Legacy, Kim Dovey

Q – Ricky sits at one of half-a-dozen entrances to the San Roque settlement in Metro Manila’s North Triangle district. Ricky (not his rea..

June 9, 2020
conversation Article
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We can't let coronavirus kill our cities. Here's how we can save urban life

Jonathan Daly, Kim Dovey, Quentin Stevens

The COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have reminded us of the vital role public space plays in supporting our physical and mental well-being. ..

May 5, 2020
conversation Article
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Transforming informal settlements

Kim Dovey

When we visit cities in the Global South, it is often impossible to ignore what are variously called ‘slums’, ‘squatter’ settlements or the..

September 7, 2018
pursuit Article
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Friday essay: how to fix Parliament House - what about some neighbours?

Kim Dovey

This is an edited version of a Senate Occasional Lecture delivered in Parliament House on May 11. Parliament House in Canberra celebrate..

May 17, 2018
conversation Article
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How a three-decade remaking of the city revived the buzz of 'Marvellous Melbourne'

Kim Dovey, Rob Adams, Ronald Jones

In the gallery of Australian art at Federation Square hangs John Brack’s iconic portrait of Melbourne in the 1950s — Collins Street, 5pm. T..

February 26, 2018
conversation Article
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What makes a city tick? Designing the 'urban DMA'

Kim Dovey, Elek Pafka

Great cities and neighbourhoods always have a particular kind of urban intensity – what we might call the “character”, “buzz” or “atmospher..

November 1, 2016
conversation Article
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Urban density matters – but what does it mean?

Kim Dovey, Elek Pafka

In debates about urban density we often find comments about buildings being too tall or not tall enough, about too many people in a neighbo..

May 20, 2016
conversation Article
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How negative-gearing changes can bring life back to eerily quiet suburbs

Kim Dovey

With debate raging over who wins and who loses with proposed major changes to negative gearing, attention also falls on which Australian su..

March 7, 2016
conversation Article
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Could Australia build a New York Highline?

Kim Dovey

The celebrated New York Highline is one of the world’s urban redesign success stories. Formerly an abandoned railway, it is now an elevated..

October 30, 2013
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2005

Planning Institute Australia
1997

RAIA
2004

British Academy Traveling Fellowship

3

Awards

Credentials

Positions

Chair Of Architecture & Urban Design

Architecture, Building and Planning

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of California

Master of Architecture

University of Melbourne

Associateship in Architecture

Curtin University of Technology

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