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Dr

James Lesh

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Architecture, Building and Planning
cultural heritage
conservation
urban history
planning
architecture
historic places
modernism
postmodernism
heritage policy
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Dr

James Lesh

 
Division
Architecture, Building and Planning
 
Primary Interest
urban heritage
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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works by James Lesh.

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War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious

James Lesh, Cameron LOGAN

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2021

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People-Centred Methodologies for Heritage Conservation Exploring Emotional Attachments to Historic Urban Places

Book  |  2021

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to histo..

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‘Beyond repair’: modernism, renewal and the conservation of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Market, 1967–76

James Lesh, Kali Myers

Journal article  |  2021  |  Planning Perspectives: an international journal of history, planning and the environment

The important role of citizen movements towards dissolving the conceptual and practical imperatives of urban modernism during the ..

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

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

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Richmond and 18 Berry Street Revisited

James Lesh, David Nichols

Book Chapter  |  2020

Lesh and Nichols explore the history of Richmond, the inner-city suburb in which much of the action of Dogs in Space takes place, ..

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Place and Heritage Conservation

James P Lesh

Book Chapter  |  2020

In the professional field of heritage conservation, ‘place’ has a distinctive meaning. This chapter explores how the concept of ‘p..

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

James Lesh

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

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Heritage Cities

James Lesh, Cameron Logan

Book Chapter  |  2020

Heritage is a force that shapes cities. It refers not only to the significant physical environments we inherit from the past but a..

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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..

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Melbourne’s Federation Square and its Heritage Discontents, 1994-2002

J Lesh

Journal article  |  2020  |  Fabrications: the journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand

From its 1994 conception to its 2002 realisation, Federation Square generated an intense public dispute between groups associated ..

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Keyword Analysis

Expanding Knowledge
Architecture
Heritage
Historical Studies
Urban and Regional Planning
Construction Planning
Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies
Political Science
Understanding Past Societies

News

Displaying the 8 most recent news articles by James Lesh.

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War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious

James Lesh, Cameron Logan

ShutterstockThe New South Wales government has released a discussion paper expressing its ambition to review an..

May 25, 2021
conversation Article
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Stuck in the past: why Australian heritage practice falls short of what the public expects

James Lesh, Kali Myers

Knowledge of local heritage protection measures and support for these are often lacking, according to a recent Heritage Council of Victoria ..

March 1, 2021
conversation Article
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Why heritage protection is about how people use places, not just their architecture and history

James Lesh

ShutterstockThe roar of the crowd at the stadium. Jostling to see the New Year fireworks in the public square. ..

July 8, 2020
conversation Article
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Our cities owe much of their surviving heritage to Jack Mundey

James Lesh

Jack Mundey, who has died at the age of 90, was a pioneer of the Australian heritage movement. As well as contributing to labor and environm..

May 11, 2020
conversation Article
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Once a building is destroyed, can the loss of a place like the Corkman be undone?

James Lesh

Since the illegal demolition of the historic Corkman Irish Pub in Melbourne in 2016, debate has raged about the best way forward for this hi..

March 11, 2019
conversation Article
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Heritage value is in the eye of the beholder: why Fed Square deserves protection

James Lesh

The proposed redesign of Federation Square includes demolishing the iconic Yarra building for an Apple store. from shutterstock.comThe Vict..

August 9, 2018
conversation Article
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Preserving cities: how 'trendies' shaped Australia's urban heritage

James Lesh

Lygon Street, Brunswick East, Melbourne, 1956. State Library of VictoriaThe Australian Ugliness, architect and critic Robin Boyd wrote in 19..

November 3, 2016
conversation Article
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Lockout laws repeat centuries-old mistake of denying value of cities as messy places

Andrew J. May, James Lesh

Sydney’s lockout laws, as well as current and proposed restrictions in other Australian cities including Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Newc..

June 7, 2016
conversation Article

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Credentials

Positions

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Architecture, Building and Planning

Casual

Architecture, Building and Planning

Full International Member

Australia ICOMOS

Education

Bachelor of Arts (with Honours)

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Commerce

University of Melbourne

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Master of Arts (Geography)

University of London

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