By Professor Robert Freestone

Journal articles

Freestone R, 2015, 'Review: Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City, by Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 74, pp. 371 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2015.74.3.371

Amati M; Freestone R, 2015, 'All of London's a stage: the 1943 County of London Plan Exhibition', Urban History, 43, pp. 1 - 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963926815000498

Freestone R, 2015, 'The exhibition as a lens for planning history', Planning Perspectives, 30, pp. 433 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2014.1002105

Freestone R, 2015, 'Anti-planning in the 1940s: the paradox of Florence Taylor', Planning Perspectives, 30, pp. 191 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2014.918862

Freestone R; Wiesel I, 2015, 'Privatisation, property and planning: the remaking of Canberra Airport', Policy Studies, pp. 1 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2014.981053

Freestone R, 2015, 'An ‘old fashioned’ geographer: An appreciation of Peter Hall (1932–2014)', Progress in Human Geography, 39, pp. 103 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132514563003

Freestone R; James P, 2015, 'Exhibition to Implementation: Introducing Democratic Planning for Metropolitan Sydney 1948–51', Urban Policy and Research, 33, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2014.967394

Pinnegar S; Randolph B; Freestone R, 2015, 'Incremental urbanism: Characteristics and implications of residential renewal through owner-driven demolition and rebuilding', Town Planning Review, 86, pp. 279 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2015.18

Freestone R, 2015, 'Peter Hall's planning history', Planning Perspectives, 30, pp. 11 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2014.965724

Nichols D; Freestone R; Putra Y, 2014, 'Frank Heath: transitions of an architect planner from the 1930s to the 1960s', The La Trobe Journal, pp. 125 - 139

Amati M; Freestone R, 2014, 'Trans-national promotion of British and American planning practice in the 1940s', Planning Theory and Practice, 15, pp. 370 - 385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2014.932429

Freestone R, 2014, 'Progress in Australian planning history: Traditions, themes and transformations', Progress in Planning, 91, pp. 1 - 29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2013.03.005

Freestone R; James P, 2014, 'Town planning exhibitions, planning education and Hobart's first metropolitan plan', Tasmanian Historical Studies, 19, pp. 117 - 138

Freestone R; Wiesel I, 2014, 'The Making of an Australian ‘Airport City’', Geographical Research, 52, pp. 280 - 295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.12069

Freestone R, 2013, 'Canberra's gardens, parks and landscape: a bibliographical essay', Australian Garden History, 24, pp. 5 - 11

Freestone R; Low Choy D, 2013, 'Enriching the community: the life and times of Frank Costello (1903-1987)', Australian Planner, 50, pp. 55 - 67, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2012.722554

Vizel I; Freestone R; Randolph WG, 2013, 'Owner-Driven Suburban Renewal: Motivations, Risks and Strategies in ¿Knockdown and Rebuild¿ Processes in Sydney, Australia', Housing Studies, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2013.758243

Freestone R, 2013, 'Remembering Bob Zehner (1941-2013)', New Planner, pp. 37 - 37

Wiesel I; Pinnegar S; Freestone R, 2013, 'Supersized Australian Dream: Investment, Lifestyle and Neighbourhood Perceptions among "Knockdown-Rebuild" Owners in Sydney', Housing, Theory and Society, 30, pp. 312 - 329, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2013.782890

Freestone R, 2013, 'The Value of Planning', New Planner, pp. 4 - 4

Freestone R; Amati M, 2013, 'When the going was good: that was then, this is now', Planning News, 39, pp. 27 - 27

Steinmetz C; Freestone R; Hendriks L, 2013, 'Women, professionalism and leadership in state government planning in New South Wales', Australian Planner, 50, pp. 282 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2012.748084

Freestone R, 2012, 'Airport management perceptions of local and regional planning regulations’', Journal of Airport Management, 6, pp. 156 - 169

Garnant C; Freestone R; Iwanicki I, 2012, 'Cold War heritage and the planned community: Woomera Village in outback Australia', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 18, pp. 541 - 563

Freestone R, 2012, 'Developing a new urban planning regime for privatised airports: the Australian experience', International Journal of Aviation Management, 1, pp. 201 - 216

Freestone R, 2012, 'Futures Thinking in Planning Education and Research', The Journal for Education in the Built Environment, 7, pp. 8 - 38

Randolph WG; Freestone R, 2012, 'Housing Differentiation and Renewal in Middle-ring Suburbs: The Experience of Sydney, Australia', Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban studies, 49, pp. 2557 - 2575, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098011435845

Baker D; Freestone R, 2012, 'Land use planning for privatized airports: The australia experience', Journal of the American Planning Association, 78, pp. 328 - 341, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2012.716315

Freestone R, 2012, 'Shaping 'the finest city region in the world': Gordon Stephenson and Canberra's National Capital Development Commission 1960-73', Town Planning Review, 83, pp. 355 - 376

Veale S; Freestone R, 2012, 'The Things We Wanted to Keep: The Commonwealth and the National Estate', Historic Environment, 24, pp. 12 - 18

Steinmetz C; Freestone R; Hendriks L, 2012, 'Women, professionalism and leadership in state government planning in New South Wales', Australian Planner, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2012.748084

Miller M; Freestone R; Gordon D; Hebbert M; Ward SV, 2011, 'Conference Review', Journal of Planning History, 10, pp. 87 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538513210396346

Freestone R; Amati M, 2011, 'Exhibitions and town planning culture: An Australian perspective', A/Z ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, 8, pp. 25 - 39

Ward SV; Freestone R; Silver C, 2011, 'Centenary paper: The 'new' planning history: Reflections, issues and directions', Town Planning Review, 82, pp. 231 - 261, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2011.16

Freestone R, 2011, 'Commentary: Ranking planning journals in the Australian research assessment exercise, 2008-2010', Journal of Planning Education and Research, 31, pp. 88 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739456X10397015

Freestone R; Amati M, 2011, 'Exhibitions and Town Planning Culture: An Australian Perspective', A/Z, 8, pp. 25 - 39

Freestone R; Baker D; Stevens N, 2011, 'Managing Airport Land Development under Regulatory Uncertainty', Research in Transportation Business and Management, 1, pp. 101 - 108

Freestone R, 2011, 'Managing Neoliberal Urban Spaces: Commercial Property Development at Australian Airports', Geographical Research, 49, pp. 115 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2010.00679.x

Freestone R, 2011, 'Reconciling Beauty and Utility in Early City Planning: The Contribution of John Nolen', Journal of Urban History, 37, pp. 256 - 277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144210391594

Freestone R, 2011, 'Review of "The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning"', Planning Practice and Research, 26, pp. 369 - 370

Freestone R; Baker D, 2011, 'Spatial planning models of airport-driven urban development', Journal of Planning Literature, 26, pp. 263 - 279

Freestone R; Nichols D, 2011, 'The 1901 Australian federal capital congress', Planning Perspectives, 26, pp. 373 - 401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2011.575556

Freestone R, 2011, 'The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning Theory: Conceptual Challenges for Spatial Planning', Planning Practice & Research, 26, pp. 369 - 370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2011.580116

Freestone R; Nichols D, 2010, 'Town Planning and Private Enterprise in Early Twentieth Century Australia: Henry F Halloran, ‘Builder of Dreams’', History Australia, 7, pp. 5.1 - 5.24, http://dx.doi.org/10.2104/ha100005

Amati M; Freestone R, 2009, 'Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Australian tour 1948', Town Planning Review, 80, pp. 597 - 626, http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2009.14

Amati M; Freestone R, 2009, ''Saint Patrick': Sir Patrick Abercrombie's Australian tour 1948', Town Planning Review, 80, pp. 597 - 626, http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/932p61547r6252u8/

Freestone R; Baker D, 2009, 'Listen and Learn', Global Airport Cities, 4, pp. 8 - 10

Freestone R; Park MB, 2009, 'The limits to nationalism: Moves toward an Australian town planning association 1913-1917', Australian Historical Studies, 40, pp. 32 - 46

Freestone R, 2008, 'Better planning and research for mixed-use developments', Australian Planner, 45, pp. 14 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2008.9982625

Freestone R, 2008, 'A Man of rare High Type:Nigel Ashton(1911-2008)', New Planner, June 2008, pp. 20 - 21

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