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BSc (UNSW), MA (UMinnesota), PhD (Macquarie)
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Human geography
2008

Professor Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning in the School of Built Environment in the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture at the University of New South Wales. Professor Freestone's research interests are in urban planning history, metropolitan change, heritage conservation, and planning education. He is also a Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia and the Institute of Australian Geographers.

  • Head of the UNSW Planning and Urban Development Program (2001-2004)
  • Member of the PIA National Education Committee (2006-to date)
  • Member of the Griffin Heritage Advisory Panel of the National Capital Authority (2003-2005).

  • R Freestone and B Hanna (2008) Florence Taylor's Hats: Designing, Building and Editing Sydney. Sydney: Halstead Press.
  • R Freestone (2007) A History of Planning, In Planning Australia, pp. 67-90. S Thompson (eds.). Sydney: Cambridge University Press.
  • R Freestone (2007) Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful 1900-1930. Sydney: UNSW Press.
  • R Freestone, P Williams and A Bowden (2006) Fly Buy Cities: Some planning aspects of airport privatization in Australia, Urban Policy and Research, 24:491-508.