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Books

Freestone R; Hamnett S, 2020, Introduction, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203362518-1

Freestone R; Davison G; Hu R, 2019, Designing the Global City Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney, Springer, Singapore, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2056-9

Freestone R; Amati M, 2016, Exhibitions and the development of modern planning culture, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315255705

Freestone R, 2010, Urban Nation: Australia`s Planning Heritage, First, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne

SGE EAPPL; Freestone R, 2009, Global Sydney: Challenges and Opportunities for a Competitive Global City, Original, Committee for Sydney, Sydney

Freestone R; Williams PJ; Foster K, 2009, National Aviation Policy: Green Paper Submission, Original, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales

Freestone R; Hanna B, 2008, Florence Taylor`s Hats: Designing, Building and Editing Sydney, Original, Halstead Press, Sydney

Freestone R; Williams PJ; Foster K, 2008, Towards a National Aviation Policy Statement City Futures Issue Paper No. 5, Original, City Futures Research Centre, on-line

Freestone R, 2007, Designing Australia`s Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900-1930, Original, University of New South Wales Press, Sydeny

Freestone R, 1997, The Federal Capital of Australia: A Virtual Planning History, Original, Australian National University, Canberra

Book Chapters

Zeunert J; Freestone R, 2022, 'From Rural Lands to Agribusiness Precincts: Agriculture in Metropolitan Sydney 1948–2018', in Cities and Nature, Springer Nature, pp. 247 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90445-6_12

Kolankiewicz V; Nichols D; Freestone R, 2022, 'New Cities', in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51812-7_102-1

Kolankiewicz V; Nichols D; Freestone R, 2022, 'New Cities', in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1148 - 1154, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87745-3_102

Freestone R; Pinnegar S, 2021, 'Sydney: Evolution toward a Tri-city Metropolitan Region and Beyond', in Neumann M; Zonnenfeld W (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design, Routledge, New York, pp. 263 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429290268

Freestone R; Pinnegar S, 2021, 'Sydney', in The Routledge Handbook of Regional Design, pp. 263 - 283, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429290268-18

Davison G; Freestone R; Hu R, 2021, 'The impacts of mandatory design competitions on urban design quality in Sydney, Australia', in Alaily-Mattar N; Thierstein A (ed.), Urban Transformations Through Exceptional Architecture, Routledge, London, pp. 93 - 113, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003150541-7

Freestone R, 2021, 'A Brief History of New Towns', in Peiser R; Forsyth A (ed.), New Towns for the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide., University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 14 - 31

Freestone R; Hamnett S, 2020, 'Introduction', in The Australian Metropolis, Taylor & Francis, pp. 1 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203362518-1

Freestone R, 2020, 'Planning History', in Leigh NG; French SP; Guhathakurta S; Stiftel B (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education, Routledge, New York, pp. 31 - 43, https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-International-Planning-Education-1st-Edition/Leigh-French-Guhathakurta-Stiftel/p/book/9781138958777

Garnaut C; Freestone R, 2019, 'Colonel Light Gardens: History, Heritage and the Enduring Garden Suburb in Adelaide, South Australia', in Sies MC; Gournay I; Freestone R (ed.), Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 132 - 155, https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15963.html

Freestone R; Nichols D, 2019, 'The Modern City and Suburb', in Lewi H; Goad P (ed.), Australia Modern Architecture, Landscape & Design 1925 - 1975, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, pp. 72 - 77

Sies MC; Gournay I; Freestone R, 2019, 'Toward Critical Resilience in Iconic Planned Communities', in Sies MC; Gournay I; Freestone R (ed.), Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, pp. 1 - 20, https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15963.html

Freestone R, 2019, 'City Beautiful Movement', in Orum A (ed.), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, Wiley Blackwell, New York, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0045

Freestone R, 2018, 'Writing the History of Planning in the English-speaking world', in Hein C (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Planning History, Routledge, London, pp. 121 - 133

Freestone R, 2018, 'Establishing an Environmental Agenda for City Planning: An Australian Retrospective', in Neumeier B; Braun B; Herche V (ed.), Nature and Environment in Australia, WVT Eissenschaftlicher Verlag, Trier, pp. 49 - 69

Freestone R; Randolph B; Pinnegar S, 2018, 'Suburbanization in Australia', in The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs, Routledge, pp. 72 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315266442-7

Freestone R, 2018, 'Visualising the emergence of a new profession in New York, Berlin and London 1909-1910', in Fischer KF; Altrock U (ed.), Windows Upon Planning History, Routledge, London, pp. 187 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315547077-15

Pinnegar S; Freestone R; Wiesel I, 2018, 'Incremental change with significant outcomes: Regenerating the suburbs through Knockdown Rebuild', in Ruming K (ed.), Urban Regeneration in Australia: Policies, Processes and Projects of Contemporary Urban Change, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 295 - 310

Freestone R; Randolph B; Pinnegar S, 2018, 'Suburbanization in Australia', in Hanlon B; Vincino TJ (ed.), The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs, Routledge, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315266442-7

Freestone R, 2017, 'Biographical Method', in Hein C (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Planning History, Routledge, London, pp. 60 - 75

Freestone R; Garnaut C, 2017, 'Beginnings: The Evolution of Metropolitan Planning to the Late Twentieth Century', in Hamnett S; Freestone R (ed.), Planning Metropolitan Australia, Routledge, London, pp. 26 - 50

Bunker R; Freestone R; Randolph B, 2017, 'Sydney: Growth, Globalization and Governance', in Hamnett S; Freestone R (ed.), Planning Metropolitan Australia, Routledge, London, pp. 26 - 50

Freestone R, 2017, 'The Metropolitan Perspective', in Hamnett S; Freestone R (ed.), Planning Metropolitan Australia, Routledge, London, pp. 1 - 25

Silver C; Freestone R; Demaziere C, 2017, 'Introduction', in Silver C; Freestone R; Demaziere C (ed.), Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 6: The Right to the City, Routledge, New York, pp. 1 - 11

Freestone R, 2017, 'The Evolution of Australian Urban and regional Planning: A Textual Analysis', in Sipe N; Vella K (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning, Routledge, London, pp. 73 - 85

Freestone R; Nichols D; Garnaut C, 2017, 'Tertiary Education and Postwar Reconstruction: The First Australian Planning Programs', in Frank A; Silver C (ed.), Urban Planning Education: Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects, Springer, London, pp. 101 - 118

Freestone R; Randolph B; Wheeler A, 2017, 'Defining and refining the research agenda for Australian cities', in Short JR (ed.), A Research Agenda for Cities, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 249 - 265

Freestone R, 2016, 'A “Monument to Civic Foresight”: Extending Martin Place, 1923-35’', in O'Callaghan J; Hogben P; Freestone R (ed.), Sydney’s Martin Place: A Cultural and Design History, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, pp. 18 - 35

Freestone R; Gunasekara S, 2016, 'Sydney', in Gold JR; Gold MM (ed.), Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World's Games 1896-2020, edn. Third, Routledge, London, pp. 317 - 332, https://www.routledge.com/Olympic-Cities-City-Agendas-Planning-and-the-Worlds-Games-1896/Gold-Gold/p/book/9781138832695

Freestone R; Wiesel I, 2016, 'Place-making in the Rise of the Airport City', in Freestone R; Liu E (ed.), Place and Placelesness Revisited, Routledge, New York, pp. 168 - 185, https://www.routledge.com/Place-and-Placelessness-Revisited/Freestone-Liu/p/book/9781138937116

Liu E; Freestone R, 2016, 'Revisiting Place and Placelessness', in Freestone R; Liu E (ed.), Place and Placelessness Revisited, Routledge, New York, pp. 1 - 19

Freestone R; Amati M; Lanfranchi A, 2016, 'The On-Line Peri Urban: Understanding Local Government Websites in Victoria and New South Wales', in Kennedy M; Butt A; Amati M (ed.), Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 68 - 88, https://www.routledge.com/Conflict-and-Change-in-Australias-Peri-Urban-Landscapes/Kennedy-Butt-Amati/p/book/9781472466853

O'Callaghan JM; Hogben P; Freestone R, 2016, 'Introduction', in Sydney's Martin Place: A Cultural and Design History, pp. xi - xiii

Freestone R; Favaro P; Baker S, 2015, 'Sydney 1967-1971: The 1971 City of Sydney strategic plan', in Albrecht B; Magrin A (ed.), Esportare il centro storico, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, pp. 347 - 351

Freestone R; Wheeler A, 2015, 'Integrating health into town planning: A history', in The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being: Shaping a Sustainable and Healthy Future, 2015 – Routledge, pp. 17 - 36, https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138023307

Freestone R, 2015, '‘Urban Planning (Western), History of’', in International Encyclopaedia of the Social and Behavioural Science, Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 862 - 868

Freestone R, 2015, 'Introduction: George Taylor and the early Australian town planning movement', in Town Planning for Australia by George Taylor, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxford, pp. vii - xxvii

Freestone R; Vizel I, 2014, 'The rise of the airport property market in Australia', in Conventz S; Thierstein A (ed.), Airports, Cities and Regions, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 218 - 241, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415859233/

Freestone R, 2014, 'The Rise and Fall of the Sydney Drive-in', in Hogben P; O'Callaghan J (ed.), Leisure Space: The transformation of Sydney, 1945-1970, edn. 1, NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, pp. 144 - 161, http://www.newsouthpublishing.com/

Freestone R, 2014, 'Australian environmental planning: origins and theories', in Byrne J; Sipe N; Dodson J (ed.), Australian Environmental Planning: Challenges and future prospects, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 21 - 35, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138000711/


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