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Prof

Richard Tomlinson

Honorary
Architecture, Building and Planning
social sciences
urban studies
public administration
regional & urban planning
geography
development studies
science & technology
environmental sciences & ecology
life sciences & biomedicine
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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 from 75 for Richard Tomlinson.

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Smart Cities and Climate Change: The Evolution and Curation of Knowledge

Richard Tomlinson

Report  |  2020

This paper focuses on knowledge sharing and the curation of knowledge for climate change, smart cities and digital technologies at..

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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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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-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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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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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Keyword Analysis

Urban and Regional Planning
Expanding Knowledge
Construction Planning
Policy and Administration
Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards
Public Health (excl. Specific Population Health)
Adaptation To Climate Change
Applied Economics
Architecture
Historical Studies

News

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

Richard Tomlinson

Migration, population growth, housing prices and congestion are all issues that cause considerable debate in Australia, but not many of us c..

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

Richard Tomlinson

The impact of Airbnb varies from city to city and suburb to suburb. AlesiaKan/shutterstockThe Airbnb and empty house phenomena and their pre..

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

Richard Tomlinson

In the first article reviewing The Conversation’s many articles on housing issues, the commentary about fiscal and supply-side issues was co..

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

Richard Tomlinson

The Conversation has published many articles by Australia’s foremost academics on policies that affect housing. In the lead-up to expected a..

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

Richard Tomlinson

Globally, interest in national urban policy peaked in the late 1970s and declined sharply thereafter. The trend held true for Australia, pea..

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

Richard Tomlinson

For residents of Australia’s cities, federalism means state governments have the right to assert what is in their best interests. Vertical f..

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

Richard Tomlinson

Perhaps all Western countries with which Australia might choose to compare itself have, since the early 1990s, engaged in intergovernmental ..

April 4, 2016
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London 2012: infrastructure legacy or a costly waste?

Richard Tomlinson

Olympics are sold on the benefits their infrastructure will bring, but sometimes reality doesn't match the promise. CmdrCordWhen London ..

July 22, 2012
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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

South Africa