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Prof

Richard Tomlinson

Honorary
Architecture, Building and Planning
social sciences
public administration
urban studies
regional & urban planning
geography
development studies
environmental studies
science & technology
environmental sciences & ecology
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Richard Tomlinson

 
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Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
Urban governance
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by Richard Tomlinson.

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The failure to learn from others: Vertical fiscal imbalance, centralisation, and Australia's metropolitan knowledge deficit

R Tomlinson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Journal of Public Administration

This paper questions the routes to knowledge of metropolitan governance elsewhere in the world and then explains how and why these..

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One policy, two paths: the development of a Chinese national housing policy and its implementation in Chongqing and Shenzhen

Ka ling Cheung, Jennifer Day, Hao Wu, Richard Tomlinson

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter provides an overview of national housing policy evolution in China. The review of housing policy shifts in China demo..

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Knowledge of Metropolitan Governance in the South

R Tomlinson

Journal article  |  2018  |  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

The practices of metropolitan governance in the South are normalized and legitimized through the workings of a ‘knowledge market’ ..

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Theorizing distributive justice and the practice of post-disaster housing recovery

Mojgan Taheri Tafti, Richard Tomlinson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Environmental Hazards

This paper examines the implications of contemporary conceptions of distributive justice for post-disaster recovery programmes. Th..

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Citizen unseen: metropolitan democratic and knowledge defecits

R Tomlinson

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Australia's Metropolitan Imperative An agenda for governance reform

R Tomlinson, M Spiller

Book  |  2018

The book will be a useful resource for those engaged in strategic, transport and land use planning, and a core reference for stude..

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A 'fair go': A housing case study

R Tomlinson, M Spiller

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Metropolitan governance in Australia, India and South Africa: The possibilities for South-North knowledge exchange

R Tomlinson

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa

R Tomlinson

Book  |  2018

Originally published in 1990, Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa examines the democratic future of South Africa in the co..

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Overview: a metropolitan reform agenda for Australia's cities

R Tomlinson

Book Chapter  |  2018

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Urban and Regional Planning
Expanding Knowledge
Construction Planning
Architecture and Urban Environment
Planning
Policy and Administration
Applied Economics
Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards
Human Geography
Public Health

News

Displaying the 7 most recent news articles by Richard Tomlinson.

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Stuck in the past: Overhauling the governance of Australia’s cities

Richard Tomlinson

September 25, 2018
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Airbnb and empty houses: who's responsible for managing the impacts on our cities?

Richard Tomlinson

September 18, 2017
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Affordable housing, finger-pointing politics and possible policy solutions

Richard Tomlinson

April 10, 2017
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What housing issues should the budget tackle? This is what our experts say

Richard Tomlinson

April 9, 2017
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New name, new look for latest national urban policy, but same old problem

Richard Tomlinson

May 17, 2016
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Our cities need city-scale government – here's what it should look like

Richard Tomlinson

April 11, 2016
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Metropolitan governance is the missing link in Australia's reform agenda

Richard Tomlinson

April 4, 2016

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Research into metropolitan governance, big data and smart technologies

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Project: Curating Knowledge of Metropolitan Governance
2014

Writing academic papers arising from sabbatical research

Research Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center
1997

Research into inner city economic development that led to academic publications and the preparation of Johannesburg's inner city economic strategy

Guest Scholar, New School for Social Research
1991

Awarded a Robert S McNamara Fellowship by the World Bank for research and writing book - Urban Development Planning

Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution, Robert S McNamara Fellowship
1986

Research and writing book - Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Guest Scholar, MIT
1984

Recipient of the Richard Ward Research Award for research in industrial decentralisation and policies to prevent the urbanisation of Africans

Richard Ward Research Award for research in industrial decentralisation and policies to prevent the urbanisation of Africans
1976

Fulbright Scholar whilst at Rutgers University

Fulbright Scholar, Rutgers University

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Architecture, Building and Planning

Education

Master of Business Administration

University of Witwatersrand

Doctor of Philosophy

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Master of Science

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Master of City and Regional Planning

University of Cape Town

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University of Witwatersrand

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