Prof Brendan Gleeson

photo of Prof. Brendan GleesonPhD (Melb), MURP (S Calif), BTRP (Hons)(Melb)

Director, Urban Research Program, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University

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Research Expertise

  • Planning and urban governance
  • Political economy of planning
  • Social policy and the city
  • The geography of disability
  • Public land development
  • Environmental policy and theory
  • Transport & urban governance 

Selected Publications 

Latest Books:

  • Low, N.P. & Gleeson, B.J. (eds.) (2003) Making Urban Transport Sustainable, Palgrave/Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK), xx + 299pp.
  • Low, N.P., Gleeson, B.J., Radovic, D. & Green, R. (2004) The Green City, UNSW Press, Sydney, & Routledge, London, 247pp. ISBN 0 415 37231 3
  • Gleeson, B.J. (2006) Australian Heartlands: making space for hope in the suburbs, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, xii + 212 pp. ISBN 1 74114 721 2
  • Gleeson, B.J. & Sipe, N. (eds.) (2006) Creating Child Friendly Cities, Routledge, London, x + 164 pp. ISBN 0 415 39160 1

Latest Chapters:

  • Gleeson, B.J. & Lawson, S. (2005) ‘Rescaling state governance in Australian urban regions’, Smyth, P., Redell, T. & Jones, A. (eds.) Community and Local Governance in Australia, UNSW Press, Sydney, 75-93
  • Gleeson, B.J., Dong, J. & Low, N.P. (2007) ‘Urban infrastructure’ in Thompson, S. (ed.) Planning Australia: An overview of Australian urban and regional planning, UNSW Press, Sydney, 313-32
  • Gleeson, B.J. ‘Three windows on the social space of disability in the industrial city’ in Albrecht, G.L. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Disability, Sage, New York, forthcoming
  • Gleeson, B.J. ‘Rescuing the urban agenda’ in A.J. Brown (2007) Federalism and Regionalism in Australia: New Approaches, New Institutions?, Australia and New Zealand School of Government/ANU E-Press, Canberra Latest

 Articles in Refereed Journals

  • Gleeson, B.J. (2005) ‘Landscapes Apart: museums and Australian suburbia’, Queensland Review, 12(1), 11-16
  • Low, N.P., Brendan Gleeson, B. & Rush, R. (2006) ‘A multivalent conception of path dependence: The case of transport planning in Melbourne, Australia, Environmental Sciences, 2(4), 391-408
  • Gleeson, B.J. (2006) ‘Desocialising space: the decline of the public realm in Western Sydney’, Social & Cultural Geography, 7(1), 19-34
  • Baker, D.C., Sipe, N. & Gleeson. B.J., (2006) ‘The paradox of performance-based planning’, Journal of Planning Education & Research, 25(4), 396-409
  • Dodson, J., Gleeson, B., Buchanan, N. & Sipe, N., (2006) ‘Transport disadvantage and social status: I towards new concepts and methods’, Urban Policy & Research, 24(4), 433-53
  • Dodson, J., Gleeson, B., Buchanan, N. & Sipe, N. (2007) ‘Investigating the social dimensions of transport disadvantage II: from concepts to methods through an empirical case study’, Urban Policy & Research, 25(1), 63-89
  • Gleeson, B.J. & Coiacetto, E., (2007) ‘Positive Planning in Australia: a review of historical and emergent rationales’, Urban Policy & Research, 25(1), 5-19

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