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Dr

Kate Shaw

Honorary
Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
social sciences
urban studies
regional & urban planning
public administration
geography
11 sustainable cities and communities
life sciences & biomedicine
environmental studies
science & technology
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Dr

Kate Shaw

 
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Science
 
Primary Interest
Urban renewal
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Projects

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21st century urban renewal: rethinking Australian planning and building regulations and their effects on the life of the city

This project compares legislative, regulatory and financing approaches to large scale urban renewal projects in Germany, Canada and Australi..

2012 - 2018
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
Completed
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EVALUATION OF THE KENSINGTON REDEVELOPMENT AND URBAN COMMUNITIES LTD (PLACE MANAGEMENT) MODEL

Completed
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Whose Urban Renaissance? An International Comparison of Policy Drivers and Responses to Urban Regeneration Strategies

2007 - 2008
Completed
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WHOSE URBAN RENAISSANCE? AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF POLICY DRIVERS AND RESPONSES TO URBAN REGENERATION STRATEGIES

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Project Types

3

Research Grant

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Internal Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 71 for Kate Shaw.

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Perhaps Hope is Not What We Need

K Shaw

Journal article  |  2022  |  Urban Policy and Research

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USING PLACES/EXCHANGING PLACES

Kate Shaw

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter considers place-making in the context of the specific interests to which the practice is enlisted. Place-making can b..

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Urban Regeneration

K Shaw, T Butler

Book Chapter  |  2019

The language and practices of urban regeneration have changed over the last century. Relatives of the term appeared through the va..

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Murky waters The politics of Melbourne's waterfront regeneration projects

Kate Shaw

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Resisting regeneration: community opposition and the politicisation of transport-led regeneration in Australian cities

Crystal Legacy, Elizabeth Taylor

Book Chapter  |  2018

While metropolitan strategies across Australian capital cities articulate the importance of land use and transport integration in ..

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Place-Making in Megaprojects in Melbourne

Kate Shaw, Geua Montana

Journal article  |  2016  |  Urban Policy and Research

This article analyses state-led place-making practices in Melbourne. The two levels of government that influence planning in Melbo..

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Murky waters: The politics of Melbourne’s waterfront regeneration projects

K Shaw

Book Chapter  |  2016

This chapter examines the redevelopment of Melbourne’s waterfront in the context of the city’s recent history of strategic plannin..

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Place-making or place-masking? The everyday political economy of "making place"

Ruth Fincher, Maree Pardy, Kate Shaw

Journal article  |  2016  |  PLANNING THEORY & PRACTICE

As redevelopment and gentrification strategies globally continue to be aimed at attracting wealthier residents and consumers in an..

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The intelligent woman's guide to the urban question

K Shaw

Journal article  |  2015  |  City

The ‘urban question’ isn't a question with an answer—not like the ‘housing question’, which is in essence, ‘Is the private market ..

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Kate Shaw (University of Melbourne) On Kirsteen Paton's Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective, Antipode

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Journal article  |  2015  |  Antipode: a radical journal of geography

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Human Geography
Construction Planning
Urban and Regional Planning
Expanding Knowledge
Policy and Administration
Sociology
Community Services
Evaluation of Health and Support Services
Government and Politics
Applied Economics

News

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Super funds should use their substantial holdings for public good

Kate Shaw

Last month Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers unveiled the National Housing Accord, intended to build a million new homes in Australia. Part of..

November 15, 2022
conversation Article
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The case for degrowth: stop the endless expansion and work with what our cities already have

Kate Shaw

Australian cities are good at growing – for decades their states have relied on it. The need to house more people is used to justify expans..

August 8, 2022
conversation Article
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Can artists revive dead city centres? Without long-term tenancies it's window dressing

Kate Shaw

After 18 months of lockdown, the City of Melbourne is understandably anxious to get people back to the CBD and inner areas. Commercial vaca..

October 27, 2021
conversation Article
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Melbourne tower lockdowns unfairly target already vulnerable public housing residents

David Kelly, Kate Shaw, Libby Porter

This week, the Victorian government unilaterally placed the residents of nine public housing towers in inner Melbourne under “hard lockdown..

July 6, 2020
conversation Article
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Shh! Don't mention the public housing shortage. But no serious action on homelessness can ignore it

David Kelly, Kate Shaw, Libby Porter

Today, October 10, is World Homeless Day. Next week the Council to Homeless Persons will convene the Victorian Homelessness Conference to ..

October 10, 2019
conversation Article
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Social mix in housing? One size doesn't fit all, as new projects show

Kate Shaw

A recent suggestion that new housing on inner-city public land should start from a presumption of 100% social housing prompted indignation ..

July 20, 2017
conversation Article
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Why should the state wriggle out of providing public housing?

Kate Shaw

The Victorian government’s 2017 housing policy contains a bulk transfer of public housing to housing associations. Housing Minister Martin ..

June 19, 2017
conversation Article
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Australia's changing profile: fewer divorces, higher incomes, more rental stress

Kate Shaw, Nicholas Biddle, Nick Parr

Divorce rates are on the decline in Australia, people are marrying and having children later in life, and more of us live alone, according ..

August 20, 2015
conversation Article
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Housing blame game here to stay in world of infinite demand

Kate Shaw

It is true that the main culprits for housing prices in Australia are taxation and regulation regimes, as argued by Stephen Kirchner last w..

March 25, 2014
conversation Article
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High rents aren't hip: the contradictions of the 'creative city'

Kate Shaw

Recent reports have confirmed what many already know: the cost of housing in Australian cities is among the highest in the world. The g..

February 9, 2014
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2009

Excellence in Knowledge Transfer Award with Prof Ruth Fincher, Prof Paolo Tombesi and Honorary Prof Paul Carter
2006

AESOP prize for best published paper over 2005

Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) prize for best published paper in 2005
2001

Stegley Foundation award for social justice in postgraduate research

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Deputy Chair

Creative Spaces working group, City of Melbourne

Member

Editorial Board, City, Culture and Society

Member

Editorial Board, Planning Theory and Practice

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Social Science

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Graduate Diploma in Urban Policy and Planning

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Links

International Linkages

The International Network for Urban Research and Action

Switzerland