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Email

nicholas.phelps@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Chair in Urban Planning
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Education
PhD
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University College London
ORCID

0000-0001-8407-9788

Prof Nicholas Phelps

Chair in Urban Planning
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

227 Scholarly works
3 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Industry agglomeration as a geohistorical process of (mis)alignment: Illustrations from Surakarta, Indonesia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2026.100064
  • 2026

    Journal article

    England’s dreaming? Corridor strategic spatial planning imaginaries, 1965–present
    DOI: 10.1177/09697764251361766
  • 2025

    Journal article

    The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer suburbs
    DOI: 10.1177/00420980241293042
  • 2025

    Journal article

    114 billboards in the City of Wyndham: selling the contemporary Australian suburban housing dream
    DOI: 10.1080/19491247.2024.2438247
  • 2023

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Beyond the Resource Curse: Redistribution and Resource-Led Development
  • 2021

    Research Grant

    Peripheral Centralities
  • 2020

    Internal Research Grant

    The New Silk Road as ‘Beltscapes’: Duisburg, Darwin and the Cities in Between
Nicholas Phelps

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Secondary city regionalism: China's cross boundary development projects
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2026.106795
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The uneven power of the platform: Variations in E-commerce entrepreneurial behaviours in urban, suburban, and rural contexts
    DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.106700
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The abandoned, the depressed, and the sacrificed: stretching the terms of the economic geographical debate on left-behind places
    DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbaf057
  • 2026

    Journal article

    The Fourth Italy: a contemporary account of the Italian economic geography
    DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbaf032
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Place, proximity and platform: The settlement system geography of Taobao village formation in China, 2014–2020
    DOI: 10.1177/00420980251363118
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Art for art’s sake? Artists as partners in urban regeneration
    DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2024.2390902
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Wind of change: shifting narratives on China's Belt and Road Initiative in Duisburg and Germany
    DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaf006
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Book of illusions? Theo Crosby’s How to Play the Environment Game in retrospect
    DOI: 10.1017/s1359135525101309

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