Month: August 2019

How can a place be heritage-listed after 17 years? What it means for Melbourne’s Fed Square

27 August 2019 James Lesh Publications

This article was originally published in The Conversation on 27 August 2019. Read the original article. It was republished in The Age / Opinion. How can a 17-year-old place gain heritage status? What this means for Melbourne’s Fed Square James Lesh, University of Sydney Federation Square in Melbourne has been listed on the Victorian state heritage register just 17 years after its completion. The push for heritage status was provoked by the now-abandoned Apple store proposal for the city centre site. Heritage considerations will now guide this important public space, widely known as Fed Square, as it evolves now and over future generations. The

BOOK REVIEW: City Life: The New Urban Australia By Seamus O’Hanlon. (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2018.)

9 August 2019 James Lesh Uncategorized

Here is my book review of City Life: The New Urban Australia by Seamus O’Hanlon. This review was published in Australian Historical Studies in 2019. City Life: The New Urban Australia investigates the restructuring of Australian urban economy, society and culture since the 1970s amid the intensification of globalisation and neoliberalism. Its strength lies in its examination of the ways 1970s–1980s de-industrialisation and the subsequent rise of 1990s–2010s service and knowledge economies have reorganised social life and recreated existing built environments.