By Professor Robert Freestone

Book Chapters

Freestone R, 1996, 'Planning suburban Canberra in the 1920s', in The early Canberra house: living in Canberra 1911-1933, edn. Original, Federal Capital Press, Canberra, pp. 11 - 26

Edited Books

Sies MC; Gournay I; Freestone R, (eds.), 2019, Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change, University pf Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15963.html

Silver C; Freestone R; Demaziere C, (eds.), 2017, Dialogues in Urban and regional Planning 6: The Right to the City, Routledge, New York

Freestone R; Liu E, 2016, Place and placelessness revisited, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315676456

Freestone R; Liu E, (ed.), 2016, Place and Placelessness Revisited, Routledge, New York

O'Callaghan JM; Hogben P; Freestone R, (eds.), 2016, Sydney's Martin Place: A cultural and design history, Allen and Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/history/Sydneys-Martin-Place-Edited-by-Judith-OCallaghan-Paul-Hogben-and-Robert-Freestone-9781760293628

Freestone R; Amati M, (ed.), 2014, Exhibitions and the Development of Modern Planning Culture, Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey

Tewdwr-Jones M; Phelps N; Freestone R, (eds.), 2014, The Planning Imagination: Peter Hall and the Study of Urban and Regional Planning, Routledge, UK, http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415506083/

Freestone R; Randolph WG; Butler-Bowdon CR, (eds.), 2006, Talking About Sydney: Population, community and culture in contemporary Sydney, Original, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney

Freestone R; Bagnara AS; Scoufis M; Pratt CC, (eds.), 2003, The Learning Community, First Explorations of the Research Teaching Nexus at UNSW, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Proudfoot PR; Maguire R; Freestone R, (eds.), 2000, Colonial City/Global City: Sydney`s International Exhibition of 1879, Crossing Press, Sydney

Freestone R, (ed.), 2000, The Australian Metropolis A Planning History, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW

Freestone R, (ed.), 2000, Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience, E & FN Spon, London

Journal articles

Freestone R; Hamnett S; Randolph B, 2023, 'Raymond Bunker (1929–2023)', Urban Policy and Research, 41, pp. 351 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2247636

Davison G; Freestone R, 2023, 'Architectural design competitions: the effects of competition format on design processes and outcomes', Journal of Architecture, 28, pp. 825 - 846, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2023.2257713

Pi J; Liu X; Freestone R; Zhang X, 2023, 'Governing an Airport Region in China: The Case of Ezhou Huahu Airport', Urban Policy and Research, 41, pp. 420 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2023.2263025

Heath L; Freestone R, 2023, 'Redefining local social capital: the past, present and future of bowling clubs in Sydney', Australian Geographer, 54, pp. 173 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2144257

Sugandha ; Freestone R; Favaro P, 2022, 'The social sustainability of smart cities: A conceptual framework', City, Culture and Society, 29, pp. 100460, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccs.2022.100460

Bolleter J; Edwards N; Freestone R; Nichols D; Oliver G; Hooper P, 2022, 'Long-Term Settlement Scenarios for Australia: A Survey and Evaluation of Community Opinions', Urban Policy and Research, 40, pp. 15 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2021.2006175

Freestone R, 2022, '‘Creation of a better urban environment’: Sydney’s Civic Design Society 1962–1984', Journal of Urban Design, 27, pp. 634 - 648, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2022.2057844

Freestone R; Pullan N, 2022, '‘Will-o’-the-wisp’: The Extended Campaign for Town Planning Legislation in New South Wales', Australian Historical Studies, 53, pp. 196 - 221, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2022.2046618

Bolleter J; Edwards N; Freestone R; Nichols D; Hooper P, 2022, 'Evaluating scenarios for twenty-first-century Australian settlement planning: a Delphi study with planning experts', International Planning Studies, 27, pp. 231 - 252, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2022.2042213

Bolleter J; Edwards N; Cameron R; Duckworth A; Freestone R; Foster S; Hooper P, 2022, 'Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Canvassing Opinion from Planning Professionals', Planning Practice and Research, 37, pp. 13 - 34, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2021.1905991

Bolleter J; Grace B; Freestone R; Hooper P, 2022, 'Informing future Australian settlement planning through a national-scale suitability analysis', International Planning Studies, 27, pp. 18 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2021.1899903

Goodman R; Freestone R; Burton P, 2022, 'Planning Practice and Academic Research: Views from the Parallel Worlds', Planning Practice and Research, 37, pp. 497 - 508, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2017.1378970

Bolleter J; Grace B; Freestone R, 2022, 'Preparing Australia for a potential surge in environmental migration', Australian Planner, 58, pp. 11 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2022.2116061

Freestone R; Baker S, 2022, 'Urban policy transfer and paradigm shift: the City of Sydney Strategic Plan 1971', Journal of Urbanism, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2022.2108115

Freestone R; Pullan N; Saniga A, 2021, 'The making of a city campus', Geographical Research, 59, pp. 29 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12439

Pi J; Li D; Liu X; Freestone R, 2021, 'The spatial distribution of employment around major Chinese airports', Journal of Transport Geography, 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.102978

Bolleter J; Freestone R; Cameron R; Wilkinson G; Hooper P, 2021, 'Revisiting the Australian Government’s Growth Centres programme 1972–1975', Planning Perspectives, 36, pp. 999 - 1023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2021.1885479

Freestone R; Pullan N, 2021, 'Sydney Post-war Metropolitan Planning: The Rise and Fall of the Satellite Town as a Spatial Imaginary', Urban Policy and Research, 39, pp. 315 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2021.1983721

Crimeen A; de Leeuw E; Freestone R, 2020, 'Healthy settings in an airport planning context: Lessons from the Sydney experience', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 30, pp. V584 - V584, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000605268702513&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Freestone R; Pullan N, 2020, '‘An ardent lover of cities’: Sonja Lyneham's contributions to urban planning practice', Australian Planner, 56, pp. 171 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2020.1750442

Tewdwr-Jones M; Sookhoo D; Freestone R, 2020, 'From Geddes’ city museum to Farrell’s urban room: past, present, and future at the Newcastle City Futures exhibition', Planning Perspectives, 35, pp. 277 - 297, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2019.1570475

Kolankiewicz V; Nichols D; Freestone R, 2019, 'The tribulations of Walter Burley Griffin’s final Australian plan: Milleara as ‘the garden city of the future’ 1925–1965', Planning Perspectives, 34, pp. 911 - 923, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2019.1642237

Freestone R; Davison G; Hu R, 2019, 'Reshaping Sydney by design – few know about the mandatory competitions, but we all see the results', The Conversation

Davison G; Freestone R, 2019, 'Design competitions and the pursuit of excellence in Sydney's CBD', Architecture Bulletin, 75, pp. 4 - 7

Wiesel I; Freestone R, 2019, 'Queue city: Authority and trust in the waiting line', Geoforum, 100, pp. 229 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.015

Freestone R, 2018, 'Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Achievement in Planning History 2018', Planning Perspectives, 33, pp. 673 - 674, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2018.1511459

Freestone R, 2018, 'Mud on His Boots: R. T. Kennedy and the Beginnings of Planning Education at the University of Auckland', Interstices : Journal of Architecture and Related Arts, pp. 70 - 84, http://interstices.aut.ac.nz/ijara/index.php/ijara/article/view/269

Freestone R; Baker D, 2018, 'Negotiating the problem of airport noise: Comparative lessons from the Australian experience', Political Quarterly, 89, pp. 457 - 465, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.12521

Freestone R; James P, 2018, 'In the shadow of Sir Patrick: Niel Abercrombie's planning career in Britain, Palestine and Australia 1933-1975', Town Planning Review, 89, pp. 355 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2018.22

Freestone R; Goodman R; Burton P, 2018, 'The State of the Art of Planning and Planning Education in Australia and New Zealand', disP - The Planning Review, 54, pp. 55 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2018.1454697

Davison G; Freestone R; Hu R; Baker S, 2018, 'The impacts of mandatory design competitions on urban design quality in Sydney, Australia', Journal of Urban Design, 23, pp. 257 - 277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2017.1337497

Freestone R; James P, 2018, 'Learning from LA: Australian Responses to Los Angeles Urbanism 1910–1960', Journal of Planning History, 18, pp. 44 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538513218755497

Crimeen A; de Leeuw E; Freestone R, 2018, 'Towards a health promotion paradigm for airport development', Cities and Health, 2, pp. 134 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2019.1585701

Amati M; Freestone R; Robertson S, 2017, '“Learning the city”: Patrick Geddes, exhibitions, and communicating planning ideas', Landscape and Urban Planning, 166, pp. 97 - 105

Freestone R, 2017, 'The Sydney Syndrome: Suburban Railways, Land Speculation and Colonial Politics', History, June, pp. 2 - 4

Freestone R; Saniga A; Logan C, 2016, 'Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities', Architecture Bulletin, Winter-Spring 2016, pp. 11 - 11

Freestone R, 2015, 'Paradise Planned:The Garden Suburb and the Modern City', JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, 74, pp. 371 - 373, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000361089900011&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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