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Neil Foley

Conference paper

David L. Davidson: early town planning reformer and administrator

From the late 1920s to at least the mid-1940s, David Lomas Davidson (1893-1952) was the most powerful and influential administrator in town planning in Australia. As Town Planning Commissioner for Western Australia from 1929 until his death, his job was to implement the spirit and...
Conference paper

Preserving green urban landscapes: regional public land acquisition in Perth and Sydney

The focus of this paper is a comparison of the history of the governance and funding of regional public land acquisition in Perth and Sydney, with the case for the selection of these two cities established by a contrast of the methods used. Specifically the...
Conference paper

Governance of public land acquisition for regional open space in Perth and Sydney

The focus of this paper is a comparison of the history of the governance of regional public land acquisition in Perth and Sydney, with the case for the selection of these two cities established by a contrast of the planning approaches used.