By Professor Robert Freestone

Book Chapters

Freestone R, 2006, 'The Americanization of Australian Planning', in Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 2, Routledge, Taylor Francis Group, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, pp. 237 - 267

Freestone R; Gibson CR, 2006, 'The Cultural Dimension of Urban Strategies: An Historical Perspective', in Culture, Urbanism and Planning, Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK, pp. 21 - 42

Freestone R, 2005, 'The Australian garden city', in Garden City Past Present and Future, pp. 107 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203973615

Freestone R, 2005, 'Charles Mulford Robinson', in Caves RW (ed.), Encyclopedia of the City, Routledge Press, New York, USA, pp. 391 - 392

Freestone R, 2005, 'City planning', in Brown May A; Swain S (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 139 - 142

Freestone R, 2005, 'Garden surburbs', in Brown May A; Swain S (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 293 - 298

Freestone R, 2005, 'Metropolitan town planning commission', in Brown May A; Swain S (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 477 - 477

Holder J; Freestone R; Kerr J, 2003, 'Molnar`s Pageant of Planning', in Human Scale in Architecture: George Molnar`s Sydney, Craftsman House, Sydney, Australia, pp. 36 - 53

Freestone R, 2003, 'Research Teaching Synergies and Built Environment Education', in Freestone R; Bagnara A; Scoufis M; Pratt C (ed.), The Learning Community, First Explorations of the Research Teaching Nexus at UNSW, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 25 - 30

Freestone R, 2002, 'City Beautiful Movement', in The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, Oxford University Press in Association with Australian Garden History Society, Melbourne, pp. 140 - 141

Freestone R, 2002, 'Garden City Movement', in The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, Oxford University Press in Association with Australian Garden History Society, Melbourne, pp. 246 - 247

Freestone R, 2002, 'Green belts in City and Regional Planning', in Parsons KC; Schuyler D (ed.), From Garden City to Green City, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, pp. 67 - 98

Freestone R, 2002, 'Sahaw, John Henry', in Australian dictionary of Biography, Melbourne university press, Carlton South, VIC, pp. 219 - 220

Freestone R; Gibson CR, 2002, 'The Cultural Economic Space of Sydney', in Kim WB; Yoo JY (ed.), Culture, Economy and Place: Asia-pacific Perspectives, Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Seoul, pp. 141 - 178

Gibson CR; Freestone R, 2002, 'The Cultural Economic Spaces of Sydney', in Kim WB; Yoo JY (ed.), Culture, Economy and Place: Asia-pacific Perspectives, Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements, Seoul, pp. 141 - 178

Freestone R, 2002, 'Town Planning', in The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens, Oxford University Press in Association with Australian Garden History Society, Melbourne, pp. 599 - 601

Freestone R, 2002, 'Urban Planning (Western) History of', in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier, pp. 16058 - 16063

Freestone R, 2002, 'Winston, Arthur Denis', in Australian dictionary of Biography, Melbourne university press, Carlton South, VIC, pp. 571 - 572

Freestone R, 2001, 'Imagineering the City Beautiful: parks, gardens, and Town planning Thought', in Gergina Whitehead (ed.), Planting the Nation, Australian Garden History Society, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, pp. 159 - 186

Freestone R, 2000, 'From city improvement to the city beautiful', in The Australian Metropolis A Planning History, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 27 - 45

Freestone R; Hamnett S, 2000, 'Introduction [The Australian Metropolis A Planning History]', in The Australian Metropolis A Planning History, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, NSW, pp. 1 - 10

Freestone R, 2000, 'Learning from Planning`s Histories', in Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience, E & FN Spon, London, pp. 1 - 19

Freestone R, 2000, 'Planning Sydney: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Debates', in Sydney: the emergence of a world city, Oxford University Press, South Melbourne, VIC, pp. 119 - 143

Freestone R, 2000, 'Planning, Housing, Gardening: Home as Garden Suburb', in A History of European Housing in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, pp. 125 - 141

Freestone R, 2000, 'Space, Society and Urban Reform', in Colonial City/Global City: Sydney`s International Exhibition of 1879, Crossing Press, Sydney, pp. 15 - 33

Freestone R, 2000, 'Utopias', in Design Professionals and the Built Environment, John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp. 179 - 190

Freestone R, 1999, 'Preface', in Colonel Light Gardens: Model Garden Suburb, Crossing Press, Sydney, pp. xii - xiv

Freestone R, 1998, 'Town planning', in The Oxford Companion to History, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, pp. 645 - 646

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

Edited Books

Favaro P; Freestone R, (ed.), 2024, Tzannes: Adaptive Urban Architecture and Design, Thames & Hudson, Port Melbourne, Victoria Australia

Saniga A; Freestone R, (ed.), 2023, Campus: Building Modern Australian Universities, UWA Publishing, Perth

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, 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, 2026, '‘Make it happen, make it better, and learn from it’: Obituary for Terry Byrnes (1938–2026)', Australian Planner, 62, pp. 96 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2026.2713224

Freestone R, 2026, 'John Lea, 1940-2025', AUSTRALIAN GEOGRAPHER, 57, pp. 139 - 145, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2026.2643138

Freestone R, 2026, '‘A map to aid the traveller’: the birth, death and afterlife of Planning History', Planning Perspectives, 41, pp. 21 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2556423

Townsend C; Nichols D; Freestone R, 2026, 'Advancing regional and community planning in Australia: the contribution of the Office of Frank Heath 1939–1948', Planning Perspectives, 41, pp. 449 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2025.2478556

Freestone R, 2026, 'Architecture, planning and civic design: the postwar Australian career of Gareth Roberts', Planning Perspectives, 41, pp. 1515 - 1540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2026.2624054

Pullan N; Freestone R, 2026, 'Prioritising placemaking, empowerment, and citizen engagement: Caroline Kelly’s pioneering social planning in post-war Sydney', Australian Planner, 62, pp. 37 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2026.2672447

Freestone R, 2026, 'Sharing the good life: Colin Clark’s contributions to urban studies', Town Planning Review, 97, pp. 37 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2025.16

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