The 10th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Program : Architecture, Building and Planning : The University of Melbourne

The 10th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Program

OPENING NIGHT – SUNDAY 7^TH FEBRUARY 2010
5.00 pm	Conference Launch: Film screening at ACMI, Federation Square
DAY ONE – MONDAY 8^TH FEBRUARY 2010
Time	Event details	Room 1: Sisalkraft Theatre (Ground Floor Architecture Building	Room 2: Japanese Room (First Floor Architecture Building)	Room 3: Architecture Room 303 (Third Floor Architecture Building)
8.30 am	Registration – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building (Coffee and Tea Available)
9.00 am	Opening Session	Official Welcome - Tom Kvan, Dean ABP LOCATION: Latham Theatre – Redmond Barry Building (just north of the Architecture Building) Keynote address: Gary Presland Chair: Tom Kvan
10.30am	Morning Tea – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
11.00am	Concurrent sessions	Historical greenfield development Chair: Rob Freestone Annabell, John, ‘Greater Napier: Creating Suburbs 1931-1968’ Harfield, Steve and Prior, Jason ‘A bright new suburbia? G.J. Dusseldorp and the development of the Kingsdene Estate’ Miller, Caroline, ‘The Christchurch Metropolitan Planning Scheme: A Preliminary View’	Cultural sustainability in regional Australia Chair: Adrian Regan Jones, Jennifer, ‘Baby Health Centres and the colour bar in NSW country towns’ Darian-Smith, Kate and Nichols, David ‘Derelict Dell and Terrible Square: the plans of Frank Heath and the citizens of Swan Hill for regional development in postwar Australia’ Kerley, Amanda, ‘Saving Puffing Billy: Heritage Values in 1950s Melbourne’	Planning for the child and the family Chair: Margaret Grose Bird, Louise and Garnaut, Christine ‘Planning for Playgrounds: Town Planning and the Supervised Children’s Playground in Early Twentieth Century South Australia’ Mouat, Clare, ‘Reinstating kids into the city through planning: Reviewing challenging dimensions of transforming and evaluating planning for Child Friendly Cities’ Pascoe, Carla, ‘Wasted Space: Urban Planning and the Child in 1950s Melbourne’
12.30pm	Lunch – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
1.30 pm	Concurrent sessions	Heritage, planning and place Chair: Graeme Davison Logan, Cameron, ‘Precincts of History: Intellectual Sources of the Heritage Precinct’ Milton, Louise, and de Jong, Ursula ‘The place of place: case studies of place in Victorian planning schemes’ Pascoe, Stephen, ‘The University of Melbourne and the Housing Commission: a relationship re-assessed’	New fringe development Chair: Sarah James Hurlimann, Anna, ‘Impressions from New Suburbs in Melbourne’s Greenfields’ Robson, Belinda, ‘Pioneers and community caretakers: navigating Craigieburn’s journey from township to modern suburb’ MacKenzie, Andrew, ‘Suburb under pressure: An investigation into the redevelopment of a Canberra suburb after the 2003 bushfires’
3.00 pm	Afternoon Tea – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
3.30 pm 5.00 pm	Concurrent sessions	Industrial spaces, contamination and reclamation Chair: Andrew Mackenzie Garnaut, Christine, Freestone, Robert and Iwanicki, Iris ‘Home on the Range: The Planning and Development of Woomera Village, 1947-2009’ Dunstone, Robin, ‘Urban Regeneration in the Maribyrnong Valley: Have we done enough to incorporate the past and protect the future?’ Prior, Jason and Harfield, Steve ‘Urban purity and danger: The turbulence associated with contamination in suburban Australia’	Waterfront and coastal redevelopment Chair: Jenny Gregory de Jong, Ursula and Fuller, Robert ‘The suburbanisation of the coastal communities of Sorrento and Queenscliff: measuring the effects of overdevelopment’ Pickett, Charles, ‘Sydney’s 80s makeover revisited’ Regan, Adrian, ‘Not building the ‘City by the Bay’: Redeveloping the Geelong CBD, 1980 to 1993’
7.00 pm	Conference dinner: Newman College, The University of Melbourne Guest Speaker: Dr Jeff Turnbull

DAY TWO – TUESDAY 9^TH FEBRUARY 2010
Time	Event details	Room 1: Sisalkraft Theatre (Ground Floor Architecture Building	Room 2: Japanese Room (First Floor Architecture Building)	Room 3: Architecture Room 303 (Third Floor Architecture Building)
8.30 am	Registration – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building (Coffee and Tea Available)
8.30 am			Business meeting: Discussion of host venue for UHPH 2011
9.00 am	Concurrent sessions		Iconic planning figures Chair: Julie Williss Gregory, Jenny, ‘Scoping Stephenson: the formative influences’ Freestone, Robert and Low Choy, Darryl, ‘Frank Costello: Pioneer Planner and Educator’ Wilson, Andrew, ‘Karl Langer’s Subtropical Housing: Greenbelt Communities and Usonian Variations’	Panel session: Rethinking Australian urban and regional historical perspectives Chair: Colin Long MacConville, Chris & Reeves, Keir ‘The historic urban landscapes of a gold-mining region / The intangible in memory and design gold field landscapes’ Sanders, Rebecca, ‘Evolution of a heritage landscape: The case study of Churchill Island’
10.30am	Morning Tea – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
11.00am	Plenary session	Keynote address: Josephine Johnson LOCATION: Latham Theatre – Redmond Barry Building (just north of the Architecture Building) Chair: Christine Garnaut
12.30pm	Lunch – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
1.30 pm	Concurrent sessions	Unrealised plans Chair: Kate Darian-Smith Montgomery, Roy, ‘Dreamfields developments: towns that never were in early Canterbury’ Willis, Julie, ‘The healthy city: Stephenson and Turner's postwar plans’ Walliss, Jillian, ‘‘Not what you would normally expect of a New Zealand park:’ an exploration of the Chaffers park design competition, Wellington’	Planning for increased density Chair: Keir Reeves Yu, Jun and Sun Sheng Han, ‘Immigration and housing price: a cross-section analysis in Melbourne’ O’Hanlon, Seamus, ‘‘Six-packs and Villa Units’: Flats in Melbourne in the 1960s and 1970s’ Sharpe, Simone, ‘The Como Project, South Yarra: from factories to apartments’	Houses for workers Chair: Stefan Petrow Bailey, Matt, ‘The industrial plant and the ‘shopping paradise’: General Motors-Holden and Westfield Eastgardens’ Roche, Michael, ‘Building Houses in New Zealand under the Workers’ Dwelling Act, 1905 and Housing Act, 1919’ Zanardo, Michael, ‘The Sydney Municipal Council Workers’ Dwellings 1914–1927: Four typological case studies in affordable housing’
3.00 pm	Afternoon Tea – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
3.30 pm 5.00 pm	Concurrent sessions	Creativity and the city Chair: Seamus O'Hanlon Luckman, Susan, ‘Cultural industries and the environment: Towards a sustainable knowledge economy’ Jordan, Caroline, ‘‘Form follows Funding’: How Victoria’s Nineteenth-century Regional Art Galleries got their Buildings’	Tension at the fringe Chair: Matt Bailey James, Sarah, ‘Farming on the Fringe: re-visioning peri-urban market gardens in Sydney’s historical and contemporary cityscape’ Turner, Bethany, ‘Community Gardens, Sustainability and the Suburbs: Rethinking food production’	Planning from the margins Chair: Carla Pascoe Johnson, Louise, ‘Rewriting Australian Planning from the Margins’ Nichols, David, Whitzman, Carolyn and Perkovic, J ‘From Accidental Planner to Agent Provocateur: 100 years of women in Victorian Planning’
5.30 pm	Opening of Andrew Saniga’s exhibition, ‘Strewth!? That’s Heritage?!’ Wunderlich Gallery, Ground Floor, Architecture Building

DAY THREE – WEDNESDAY 10^TH FEBRUARY 2010
Time	Event details	Room 1: Sisalkraft Theatre (Ground Floor Architecture Building	Room 2: Japanese Room (First Floor Architecture Building)	Room 3: Architecture Room 303 (Third Floor Architecture Building)
9.00 am	Concurrent sessions	Environmental planning Chair: Caroline Miller Jones, David, ‘Innovation in Ecological Planning: The Mornington Peninsula Conservation Plan’ Greenep, Montgomery, Sullivan and Meurk, ‘Rethinking stony ground: urban ecology, native plants and ‘greyfields’’ Blair, Simone, ‘Master planning the seasons: residents’ experiences of the environment in new suburban neighbourhoods’	Parks and open space Chair: Jillian Walliss Grose, Margaret, ‘Turf that works’ Hutchings, Alan, ‘The persistence of planning ideas: the Parklands Girdle as a Designed Urban Element: Adelaide, South Australia.’ Low Choy, Darryl, ‘Open Space, Closed Minds: a review of the green wars associated with attempts to introduce an open space dimension to regional planning in South East Queensland’
10.30am	Morning Tea – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
11.00am	Concurrent sessions	People, planning and institutions Chair: Stephen Pascoe Bourke, Anne, ‘The Lure of the Land: Mont Park Hospital for the Insane’ McKinnon, Dolly, ‘The 20^th– century Mental Hospital: A place in history but not in the adaptive reuse of surviving built heritage environments’ Wiesel, Ilan, ‘Deinstitutionalisation at the ‘mixed community’ crossroad: the redevelopment of Kew Cottages’	Community activism Chair: Renate Howe Petrow, Stefan, ‘‘Community Involvement’: The Council of Hobart Progress Associations and the Shaping of Urban Growth in Hobart 1966-1982’ Saniga, Andrew, ‘Guerilla Planning: positioning divergent landscapes in planning and heritage’ Morel-EdnieBrown, Felicity, ‘Cradle to the Grave? City spaces as living rooms or intervals between buildings’	Rapid urban growth Chair: Michael Roche Dong, Wenli, Lehmann, Steffen and Mackee, Jamie ‘Density Variation and Climate Differentiation in China – Comparative Study on Compaction Models for five Chinese Cities: Harbin, Tianjin, Wuhan, Chongqing and Shenzhen’ Griffin, Grahame, ‘Mediating the Mountain: a Community newspaper faces the approaching urban footprint’ Bosman, Caryl and Dredge, Dianne ‘Changing Climates and the Gold Coast: Histories of Rapid Urban Growth in a tourist city’
12.30pm	Conference Close – Sisalkraft Theatre Lunch – Atrium, 1^st Floor of the Architecture Building
1.30 pm	Walking tours: CBD, Eynesbury and Yarra River
** Please note that the Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission will be conducting hearings on Urban Planning in bushfire-prone areas during the week of the conference (Monday 8^th – Thursday 11^th Feb.). These hearings are open to the public, and some of you may wish to attend on the Thursday, if you are still in Melbourne.

All rooms will be in the Architecture, Building and Planning building at the University of Melbourne, Parkville.

(If unfamiliar with the campus, please refer to the campus map that can be viewed at http://www.endeavour.unimelb.edu.au/downloads/campus_map.pdf - the Architecture building is Building no.133)

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