By Professor Robert Freestone

Journal articles

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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.09.006

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

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

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