Lee Stickells
Biographic Data
| ID | 3453727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Stickells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Stickells |
| SIGNATURE | STICKELLS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9118-935X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tents and trespass
In 2015, trespass law was used to evict a group of Indigenous people from a gentrifying area of inner city Sydney. What made this unusual was that the landowner was also Indigenous – the Aboriginal Housing Corporation (AHC) – and the site was the Block, one of the most recognizably Indigenous places in Australia. Led by Wiradjuri elder Jenny Munro, the trespassers set up a “tent embassy” in protest against the AHC’s plans for the site, plans Munr…
“Ecologically camping, eating, drinking wine.” Material and knowledge flows in the Minimum Cost Housing Group’s Ecol Operation, 1971-76
For approximately fifty years, McGill University’s Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) has undertaken research on the “human settlement problems of the poor.” This paper focuses on the group’s activities from 1970 to1976, and more specifically the “ECOL Operation” initiated by the group’s first director, Colombian architect and UN consultant Alvaro Ortega. The story of the ECOL Operation gives insight into some unanticipated feedback loops associat…
The Right To The City
Interview with Reinhold Martin
Interview with Reinhold Martin
The Right To The City
“Ecologically camping, eating, drinking wine.” Material and knowledge flows in the Minimum Cost Housing Group’s Ecol Operation, 1971-76
For approximately fifty years, McGill University’s Minimum Cost Housing Group (MCHG) has undertaken research on the “human settlement problems of the poor.” This paper focuses on the group’s activities from 1970 to1976, and more specifically the “ECOL Operation” initiated by the group’s first director, Colombian architect and UN consultant Alvaro Ortega. The story of the ECOL Operation gives insight into some unanticipated feedback loops associat…
Tents and trespass
In 2015, trespass law was used to evict a group of Indigenous people from a gentrifying area of inner city Sydney. What made this unusual was that the landowner was also Indigenous – the Aboriginal Housing Corporation (AHC) – and the site was the Block, one of the most recognizably Indigenous places in Australia. Led by Wiradjuri elder Jenny Munro, the trespassers set up a “tent embassy” in protest against the AHC’s plans for the site, plans Munr…
Architecture, Modernity, and Design (2 works) · Urban Planning and Landscape Design (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 work) · Architecture, Design, and Social History (1 work) · Blueprint (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Capitalism (1 work) · Ecological civilization (1 work) · Economic growth (1 work) · Economics (1 work)