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Prof

Brendan Gleeson

Professor In Urban Policy And Planning
Architecture, Building and Planning
Urbanisation and urban policy
urban political economy
sustainability
urban governance
Child friendly cities
social policy and disability studies
Environmental theory and policy
Climate change and urban resilience
social sciences
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Brendan Gleeson

 
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Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
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Projects

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Parks Victoria Research Partners Panel Agreement

2013 - 2026
Active
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The disability inclusive city

This project aims to examine adjustments in urban policy and delivery of mainstream urban services in response to the National Disability In..

2018 - 2022
Completed
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Risk and Fragmentation in Water: an ECR perspective

2021 - 2021
Completed
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HEALTHY & SUSTAINABLE CITIES INITIATIVE

2018 - 2019
Completed
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Governance in Cities Under Austerity (ESRC) Ref ES/L01289/1

2015 - 2018
Completed
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THE DILEMMA OF URBAN EMPLOYMENT LAND: AN INQUIRY INTO THE VIABILITY OF SMALL URBAN MANUFACTURING IN INNER MELBOURNE

2015 - 2016
Completed
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The Dilemma of Urban Employment Land: An Inquiry into the Viability of Small Urban Manufacturing in Inner Melbourne

2015 - 2016
Completed
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STRATEGIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP

2012 - 2015
Completed
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SURVEY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE'S URBAN RESEARCH - STRATEGIC ALLOCATION

2013 - 2014
Completed
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CONTRACT E1139 RESEARCH PARTNERS PANEL - HOLDING OVER INFORMATION

2012 - 2013
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

5

Research Grant

4

Research Contracts

3

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

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More-than-care: People with intellectual disability and emerging vulnerability during pandemic lockdown

Ellen van Holstein, Ilan Wiesel, Christine Bigby, Brendan Gleeson

Journal article  |  2023  |  TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS

This paper offers more-than-care as a framework for analysing how vulnerability emerges in the lives of people with intellectual d..

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'Mainstreaming' Meets 'Choice and Control': Unsettling Neoliberal Imaginaries of Service Choice

Ilan Wiesel, Christine Bigby, Ellen van Holstein, Brendan Gleeson

Journal article  |  2022  |  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING C-POLITICS AND SPACE

‘Mainstreaming’ and ‘Choice and control’ agendas have played a dominant role in shaping disability policy and advocacy in many cou..

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Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions

Ariana Dickey, Anna Kosovac, Sebastian Fastenrath, Michele Acuto, Brendan Gleeson

Journal article  |  2022  |  CITIES

Silo-ed thinking, fragmented knowledge systems and short-termism remain key challenges in transforming urban systems and policy ma..

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Three modes of inclusion of people with intellectual disability in mainstream services: mainstreaming, differentiation and individualisation

Ilan Wiesel, Christine Bigby, Ellen van Holstein, Brendan Gleeson

Journal article  |  2022  |  DISABILITY & SOCIETY

This paper examines the adjustments made to include people with intellectual disabilities in mainstream services. Drawing on in-de..

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List of Figures and Tables

Davies Jonathan S., Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar, Helen Sullivan

Book Chapter  |  2022

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Collaborative Governance After the Global Economic Crisis

Davies Jonathan S., Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar, Helen Sullivan

Book Chapter  |  2022

From the basis of multiple definitions and mixed practices of collaborative governance, this chapter explores trends found through..

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The Local State in Austerity Governance

Davies Jonathan S., Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar, Helen Sullivan

Book Chapter  |  2022

This chapter seeks to better understand how austerity governance has been experienced in the eight cities, from the perspective of..

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Rescaling through Austerity Governance

Davies Jonathan S., Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar, Helen Sullivan

Book Chapter  |  2022

In this chapter, we show how the study of scale is enlightening when trying to understand how austerity has functioned in our eigh..

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Urban Cultural Diversity and Economic Migration in Austere Times

Davies Jonathan S., Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar, Helen Sullivan

Book Chapter  |  2022

This chapter discusses the way that (neoliberal) austerity has impacted social, racial and cultural inequalities and the ability o..

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New Developments in Urban Governance

Jonathan S Davies, Ismael Blanco, Adrian Bua, Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Mercè Cortina-Oriol, Andrés Feandeiro, Niamh Gaynor, Brendan Gleeson, Steven Griggs, Pierre Hamel, Hayley Henderson, David Howarth, Roger Keil, Madeleine Pill, Yunailis Salazar, Helen Sullivan

Book  |  2022

Presenting the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight ci..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Urban and Regional Planning
Construction Planning
Terrestrial Systems and Management
Expanding Knowledge
Government and Politics
Human Geography
Adaptation To Climate Change
Sociology
Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards
Historical Studies

News

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Tramping the city to find enchantment in a disenchanting world

Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson

Based in Melbourne, we set out to find new ways of seeing and understanding aspects of Australian urban life in the 21st century. We did th..

December 10, 2020
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Market-led infrastructure may sound good but not if it short-changes the public

Crystal Legacy, Brendan Gleeson, Jago Dodson, John Stone

The privatisation of services in Australian cities has weakened public control of key infrastructure. This is likely to accelerate as gover..

December 2, 2019
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Comeback city? Lessons from revitalising a diverse place like Dandenong

Hayley Henderson, Brendan Gleeson, Helen Sullivan

In the 1990s, central Dandenong in Melbourne’s southeast was in decline. But, over the past decade and a half, this trend has been halted a..

December 1, 2019
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Post-capitalism: Life within environmental limits

Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson

It may seem as though capitalism has always been a part of the Western world, but that’s not true. Although the concept has some roots in t..

February 20, 2019
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The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future

Samuel Alexander, Brendan Gleeson

Suburban affluence is the defining image of the good life under capitalism, commonly held up as a model to which all humanity should aspire..

December 13, 2018
conversation Article
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We can't just leave it to the NDIS to create cities that work to include people with disability

Ilan Wiesel, Brendan Gleeson, Carolyn Whitzman, Ellen van Holstein, Christine Bigby

This is the fifth article in our series, Cities for Everyone, which explores how members of different communities experience and shape our ..

May 6, 2018
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Melbourne’s 'doughnut city' housed its homeless

Claire Collie, Brendan Gleeson

This is the fourth article in our series, Cities for Everyone, which explores how members of different communities experience and shape our..

May 3, 2018
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What actually is a good city?

Paul James, Belinda Young, Brendan Gleeson, John Wiseman

This is one of a series of articles to coincide with the 2017 Ecocity World Summit, which begins today in Melbourne. Our cities have no..

July 11, 2017
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Market-driven compaction is no way to build an ecocity

Brendan Gleeson

This is the first of a series of articles to coincide with the 2017 World Ecocity Summit in Melbourne. As Melbourne hosts the Ecocity W..

July 9, 2017
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Q&A: Aspiring to an ecocity future

Brendan Gleeson, Mee Kam Ng

The EcoCity World Summit is designed to focus on the way humanity builds its home — its cities, towns and villages. Although the summit bri..

June 26, 2017
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2004

John Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues, Inaugural recipient

Allen & Unwin
2001

National Award for Planning Excellence, Planning Scholarship for "Australian Urban Planning: new challenges, new agendas" - shared with N.P.Low

Royal Australian Planning Institute
2000

Award for Planning Excellence, Planning Scholarship for "Australian Urban Planning: new challenges, new agendas" - shared with N.P.Low

Royal Australian Planning Institute, Victorian Divison
1999

Awarded for best "National Urban Planning and Development Essay", Australia

Peter Harrison Memorial Prize
1999

Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for "Justice, Society & Nature: an exploration pf political ecology" - shared with N.P Low

International Studies Association
1996

Young Research Workers Award

Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers
1990

(High Priority)

Australian Postgraduate Research Award
1989

Gordon Whitnall Proze for academic achievement

University of Southern California
1988

Honours, School of Urban and Regional Planning, Comprehensive Examinations

University of Southern California
2008

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor In Urban Policy And Planning

Architecture, Building and Planning

Education

DOCTOR IN PHILOSOPHY

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy

The University of Melbourne

MASTERS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

University of Southern California

BACHELOR OF TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING HONS

University of Melbourne

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International Linkages

The University of Glasgow

United Kingdom