Nicola Pullan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1533338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Pullan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Pullan |
| SIGNATURE | PULLAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0769-7889 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Prioritising placemaking, empowerment, and citizen engagement
Post-war suburbanisation is a foundational element of the Australian urban experience but brought a balance sheet of social costs alongside material benefits. Most development authorities were slow to acknowledge the need for a more explicit social approach to urban questions until the 1970s, a decade of questioning conventional wisdom, promoting wider community participation, and greater awareness of the importance of place in planning outcomes.…
Will-o’-the-wisp’
Implementing widely shared visions of better cities in the twentieth century required legislative backing. This was a protracted process in every Australian state and certainly in New South Wales where it was linked distinctively to metropolitan governance reforms. Unpacking a tortured political narrative of anticipation and rejection, this article charts the interplay of the professional, parliamentary, and popular quests for effective town plan…
Sydney Post-war Metropolitan Planning
Taming metropolitan expansion by developing satellite towns was conventional wisdom by the mid-twentieth century, but Sydney's early attempts highlight the disjuncture between theory and practice. Viewed through the theoretical lens of the spatial imaginary, longer term metropolitan planning was problematised and tested through inadequate governance, flawed population projections, and aggressive public and private sector developers. Archival reco…
The making of a city campus
Campus spatial development has attracted relatively little scholarly research, yet through time major moves reflect and interact with broader policy, design, and societal trends. The city campus as a high-density, mixed-use knowledge precinct has emerged as a distinctive type. Its growing prominence points to the convergence of interdependent trends in urban life, higher education, and economic growth. This article describes, contextualises, and …
Edge conditions
The fifteenth biennial conference of the Australasian urban history/planning history group was convened by the School of Architecture, Environments and Design at the University of Tasmania at Inveresk in Launceston, Tasmania from 5–7 February 2020. The conference was a stimulating event that included 56 presentations attended by more than 70 delegates who showed a genuine interest in extending fields of enquiry and supporting each other in the re…
Anastasia's Journeys
Anastasia's Journeys was a temporary exhibition in the Australian History Museum, Macquarie University, Australia. Developed from the oral history of a post-World War Two Russian immigrant who survived Stalin's policies of forced collectivisation and engineered famine, the display communicated primarily through audio tracks, supported by text panels and objects. This article articulates the creative tensions between theory and practice of public …
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Anastasia's Journeys
Anastasia's Journeys was a temporary exhibition in the Australian History Museum, Macquarie University, Australia. Developed from the oral history of a post-World War Two Russian immigrant who survived Stalin's policies of forced collectivisation and engineered famine, the display communicated primarily through audio tracks, supported by text panels and objects. This article articulates the creative tensions between theory and practice of public …
Edge conditions
The fifteenth biennial conference of the Australasian urban history/planning history group was convened by the School of Architecture, Environments and Design at the University of Tasmania at Inveresk in Launceston, Tasmania from 5–7 February 2020. The conference was a stimulating event that included 56 presentations attended by more than 70 delegates who showed a genuine interest in extending fields of enquiry and supporting each other in the re…
Sydney Post-war Metropolitan Planning
Taming metropolitan expansion by developing satellite towns was conventional wisdom by the mid-twentieth century, but Sydney's early attempts highlight the disjuncture between theory and practice. Viewed through the theoretical lens of the spatial imaginary, longer term metropolitan planning was problematised and tested through inadequate governance, flawed population projections, and aggressive public and private sector developers. Archival reco…
The making of a city campus
Campus spatial development has attracted relatively little scholarly research, yet through time major moves reflect and interact with broader policy, design, and societal trends. The city campus as a high-density, mixed-use knowledge precinct has emerged as a distinctive type. Its growing prominence points to the convergence of interdependent trends in urban life, higher education, and economic growth. This article describes, contextualises, and …
Will-o’-the-wisp’
Implementing widely shared visions of better cities in the twentieth century required legislative backing. This was a protracted process in every Australian state and certainly in New South Wales where it was linked distinctively to metropolitan governance reforms. Unpacking a tortured political narrative of anticipation and rejection, this article charts the interplay of the professional, parliamentary, and popular quests for effective town plan…
Prioritising placemaking, empowerment, and citizen engagement
Post-war suburbanisation is a foundational element of the Australian urban experience but brought a balance sheet of social costs alongside material benefits. Most development authorities were slow to acknowledge the need for a more explicit social approach to urban questions until the 1970s, a decade of questioning conventional wisdom, promoting wider community participation, and greater awareness of the importance of place in planning outcomes.…
Archaeology (5 works) · Civil engineering (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Urban planning (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · Art (2 works)