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DR DAVID NICHOLS



Contact Details

Organization: Architecture, Building and Planning
Position: LECTURER - URBAN PLANNING
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Work: 83447596
Fax: 8344532
Room: 227
Level: 02
Building: Architecture And Planning Building
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Honours Thesis on "Darlington and the University of Sydney" University of Sydney 01-Jan-1995
Leading Lights: The Promotion of Garden Suburb Plans and Planners in Interwar Au Deakin University 01-Apr-2002

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY IN AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY TOWNS, AMENITY, MOBILITY AND EVERYDAY LIFE Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
HISTORY OF WOMEN IN PLANNING IN VICTORIA Chief Investigator WOMENS PLANNING NETWORK 19/09/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Conference Publications/Papers

  • The blank canvas: community and public murals on modernist public buildings
    Year: 2009
    Event name: 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Conference Publication: Cultural Crossroads: Proceedings of the 26th International SAHANZ Conference
    Page numbers: 889-904
    Publisher: The Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Caroline Springs
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Landscape Architecture Australia
    Volume: 119
    Issue: Aug
    Page numbers: 46-50
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  • Heritage and planning's early 20th Century legacy in Melbourne
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Urban Planning International
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 62-68
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Art, Business or Social Service?
    Year: 2008
    Event name: History in Practice. The XXVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Conference Publication: History in Practice. Proceedings of the XXVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
    Page numbers: 1-19
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Perth)
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  • The provision of public amenities in private subdivisions 1900-1930
    Year: 2008
    Event name: International Planning History Society 13th Biennial Conference
    Conference Publication: Public versus Private Planning: Themes, Trends and Tensions
    Page numbers: 715-730
    Publisher: International Planning History Society(Chicago)
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Publications in 2007

Books

  • Deeper Leads - New Approaches to Victorian Goldfields History
    Year: 2007
    Publisher: Ballarat Heritage Services(Ballarat, Victoria)
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Book Chapters

  • Goldfields Asylums: anxieties, evasions and erasures
    Year: 2007
    Book: Deeper Leads: New approaches to Victorian goldfields history
    Publisher: Ballarat Heritage Services(Ballarat, Victoria)
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Journal Articles

  • 'A versatile and directing mind': C. J. Garis' Model Communities
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Studies
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 131-161
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  • Post-war suburban 'reconstruction' and the democratised 'frontier' in the civic and recreational buildings of Beaumaris and Park Orchards
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Planner
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 38-44
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  • The Singer, Not the Song: Three 'classic line-ups' and the popular conception of rock groups
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Perfect Beat: the Pacific journal of research into contemporary music and popular culture
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 44-61
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  • Urban Activist Films in Melbourne 1969-1972
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Local-Global
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 113-123
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Kew Club: The Modernist Mythology of a Middle-Ring Suburb
    Year: 2007
    Event name: XXIVth International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (2007)
    Conference Publication: Panorama to Paradise: Scopic Regimes in Architectural and Urban History and Theory. Proceedings of the XXIVth Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ) 2007
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ)(Adelaide)
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Publications in 2006

Books

  • From the Roundabout to the Roundhouse: 25 Years of Kingsford Legal Centre
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: University of New South Wales
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  • The Go-Betweens
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Verse Chorus Press(Portland)
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Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Does the Meaning Mean a Thing?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Cultural History
    Volume: 24
    Page numbers: 163-183
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  • Life... the manifestation of a purpose.  The uses of memor in the writings of Mildura's De Garis siblings
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society
    Volume: 92
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 46-62
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Jock McDougalls of Broadmeadows
    Year: 2006
    Event name: Eighth Urban History/Planning History Conference
    Conference Publication: Eighth Urban History/Planning History Conference
    Page numbers: 389-399
    Publisher: Massey University School of People, Environment & Planning(Wellington)
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • A fresco that can be lived: Alternative youth culture becomes inner-city urban activism in Melbourne in the 1960s
    Year: 2005
    Book: Go! Melbourne in the 60s
    Publisher: Melbourne Publishing Group/Circa(Armadale)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

Conference Publications/Papers

  • 'Grass Roots' Democracy and the Inner City


    Year: 2004
    Event name: International Planning History Society Conference
    Conference Publication: International Planning History Society Conference
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: IPHS Conference(Barcelona)
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  • The Victories of Failure: CJ De Garis's Corio Garden Suburb
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Seventh Urban History/Planning History Conference
    Conference Publication: Seventh Urban History/Planning History Conference
    Page numbers: 287-300
    Publisher: School of Architecture & Building, Deakin University(Geelong)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • (Re)introducing the Interior Park
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Parks and Leisure Australia
    Volume: 5
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 9-15
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • From Planning History to Community Action: Adelaide's Internal Reserves


    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 21-33
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  • A Particularly Happy Arrangement?: Idealism, Pragmatism and the Enclosed Open Spaces of Perth Garden Suburbs
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Limina
    Volume: 7
    Page numbers: 65-81
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  • The Merrilands Triangle
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Melbourne Historical Journal
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 60-73
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Dazzled by Cities Abroad: The NOtion of Influence in Australian Town Planning of the Interwar Years
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Mass Historia Conference
    Conference Publication: Mass Historia Conference
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: University of Melbourne, Department of History(Melbourne)
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  • Internal Parkland in Early Planned Suburbs:  From Planning History to Planning Heritage?
    Year: 2001
    Event name: ICOMOS Conference, Adelaide
    Conference Publication: ICOMOS Conference
    Page numbers: 396-405
    Publisher: University of Adelaide(Adelaide)
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