James Lesh

Richmond and 18 Berry Street Revisited

James Lesh, David Nichols

Book Chapter  |  2020

One of Melbourne’s worst planning mistakes at risk of being repeated

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Place and Heritage Conservation

James P Lesh

Book Chapter  |  2020

Why heritage protection is about how people use places, not just their architecture and history

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Heritage Cities

James Lesh, Cameron Logan

Book Chapter  |  2020

Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Jack Mundey fought to save Australia's urban and environmental heritage. An architect of green bans, his lifelong efforts empowere..

Cremorne Gardens, Gold-rush Melbourne, and the Victorian-era Pleasure Garden, 1853–63

James Lesh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Victorian Historical Journal

For ten summer seasons, from 1853 to 1863, Cremorne Gardens—gold- rush Melbourne’s premier leisure attraction—welcomed thousands o..

Road to Nowhere? Freeways are 20th century relics that we should let go their own way

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

How can a 17-year-old place gain heritage status? What this means for Melbourne’s Fed Square

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Public space should not be managed as a business

undefined Foreground, Tania Davidge, Michael Smith, James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

I’ve just discovered my building is covered in flammable cladding

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Once a building is destroyed, can the loss of a place like the Corkman be undone?

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

Remaking cities: the fourteenth Australasian urban history/planning history conference, Melbourne, 2018.

Lauren Piko, James Lesh, Victoria Kolankiewicz

Journal article  |  2019  |  Planning Perspectives

From Modern to Postmodern Skyscraper Urbanism and the Rise of Historic Preservation in Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth, 1969-1988

James P Lesh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Journal of Urban History

Book Review: City Life: The New Urban Australia

James Lesh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Historical Studies

The National Estate (and the city), 1969–75: a significant Australian heritage phenomenon

JP Lesh

Journal article  |  2019  |  International Journal of Heritage Studies

This article argues that the Australian Whitlam Labor Government between 1969 and 1975 produced a distinguishably Australian conce..

Social value and the conservation of urban heritage places in Australia

James Lesh

Journal article  |  2019  |  Historic Environment

Across the world, researchers and practitioners are recognising the potential of social value to bolster the conservation of herit..

TWENTIETH-CENTURY JEWISH LGBTQ LONDON and the Rainbow Jews Heritage Project

James Lesh

Journal article  |  2018  |  Change Over Time

Heritage value is in the eye of the beholder: why Fed Square deserves protection

James Lesh

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Conversation

Apple store has no place in the people’s square

James Lesh, Tania Davidge

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

Apple is exploiting the power of its brand to claim an important part of our city

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

Lost [in] Arcadia: Regenerating Melbourne’s Nineteenth-Century Shopping Arcades Since the 1950s

James P Lesh, Nicole Davis

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference 2018

The ways that the past impacts the Australian city in the present, sparking the historical consciousness of its residents and rule..

The Ruins Caused a Catch in the Throat as Memories Came Flooding In’: Melbourne’s Bread and Cheese Club and Postwar Literary Urban Conservationism

James P Lesh, David Nichols

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the 14th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference 2018

The ways that the past impacts the Australian city in the present, sparking the historical consciousness of its residents and rule..

“A Regional Conservation Manifesto”, The Burra Charter and the Australian Re-invention of Urban Heritage Management, ca. 1975–1985

JP Lesh

Journal article  |  2017  |  International Journal of Regional and Local History

Book Review: City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia

JP Lesh

Journal article  |  2017  |  Urban History

Preserving cities: how ’trendies’ shaped Australia’s urban heritage

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2016

From the 1960s, the backlash against inner-suburban clearances was led by the ’trendies’.

60 years of the National Trust in Victoria

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2016

Lockout laws repeat centuries-old mistake of denying value of cities as messy places

Andrew May, James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2016

Heightening liquor regulation has for centuries been the immediate response of urban policymakers when confronted with people and ..

Locating the national in the urban: heritage and scale in the twentieth-century Australian City.

James P Lesh

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference

The ways that the past impacts the Australian city in the present, sparking the historical consciousness of its residents and rule..

Exhibition Review: A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne

James P Lesh

Journal article  |  2016  |  Melbourne Historical Journal

‘Why not call ourselves mutilated Melbourne?’ A history of urban heritage at the Rialto Towers

JP Lesh

Journal article  |  2016  |  Historic Environment

When completed in 1986, the Rialto Towers were the tallest building complex in the Southern Hemisphere. They remain today an endur..

What is Urban History? by Shane Ewen (Polity, 2016)

James P Lesh

Journal article  |  2015  |  Melbourne Historical Journal

Review of Shane Ewen, What is Urban History? (Cambridge: Polity, 2016).

Land boom advertising: a socio-spatial mapping of the 1885 subdivision of Cremorne

James P Lesh

Journal article  |  2013  |  The La Trobe Journal

The curious case of the dog in the city: Melbourne’s Larry La Trobe

James P Lesh

Journal article  |  2013  |  Melbourne Historical Journal