Brendan Gleeson

Deprogramming Planning: Collaboration and Inclusion in the New Urban Development (82 KB PowerPoint)

Brendan Gleeson is Professor of Urban Policy and Management at Griffith University. Before joining Griffith in March 2003, Professor Gleeson was Deputy Director of the Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney. His research interests include urban planning and governance, urban social policy, disability studies, and environmental theory and policy.

He is co-author (with Nicholas Low) of Justice, Society and Nature: an Exploration of Political Ecology (1998). This book received the prestigious Harold and Margaret Sprout award in 1999 from the International Studies Association. He has also co-edited three books with Nicholas Low on aspects of urban and environmental policy. Professor Gleeson's urban social policy interests were reflected in his 1999 book, Geographies of Disability. In 2001, his book (with N.P.Low), Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas received the Royal Australian Planning Institute's National Award for Planning Scholarship Excellence. His latest book (edited with N.P. Low), Making Urban Transport Sustainable was published by Macmillan in March 2003. A further book, The Green City, will be published in late 2004.

Professor Gleeson has worked professionally in a range of countries, including Britain, Germany, New Zealand, the USA and Australia. In early 2002, Gleeson was appointed by the ACT government to act as a key adviser on a major restructuring of the territory's planning and land development administration. He is currently a member of the ACT Planning and Land Council.