Rachel Gallagher
Biographic Data
| ID | 4416717 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Gallagher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallagher |
| SIGNATURE | GALLAGHER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9243-5121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1943 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer Space in Transition: A Durkheimian Analysis of the Transformation of Queer Geographies
The twenty‐first century has seen rapid developments to the structure of queer space. Following technological development and the shuttering of LGBTQ+ bars, clubs, and other physical institutions, transitory queer spaces such as digital networks and pop‐up events have become important forms of queer spatial life, bringing into question how queer social organization and community can be sustained. This article applies an intersectional, neo‐Durkhe…
Urban planning as a settler colonial tool: Land, control and extractive settlement on the Queensland (Australia) frontier
Colonial settlement was a spatial strategy through which territory was claimed, governed, and made extractable. Conventional origin stories of planning in the Anglosphere emphasize social reform in nineteenth-century industrial cities, yet frontier town-making was also central to the development of planning instruments. This paper examines Queensland’s colonial frontier as a key site where subdivision layouts, surveying practices, and administrat…
Urban morphology and frontier town planning in Queensland: A comparative analysis of block and lot patterns
This paper presents the first systematic comparative urban morphological analysis of frontier towns in Queensland (Australia), extending global urban morphology research beyond the well-studied centres of major metropolitan cities. Drawing on digitized nineteenth-century survey plans for 48 frontier settlements, the study examines block and lot configurations across diverse settlement contexts and compares these patterns with a set of benchmark r…
Misaligned Policy and Practice: Does Upzoning’s Implicit Reliance on Land Assembly Undermine Densification Goals
The Limits of Upzoning: Historic Land Use, Amenity, and Lot-Scale Drivers of Densification
Tracing informality: The spatial legacy of post-war informal settlements in Brisbane, Australia
Informal settlements are often associated with cities in the global South, yet they also emerge in high-income countries during periods of acute housing shortage. This study examines the spatial evolution of informal settlements, including temporary housing camps, in Brisbane (Australia). Through a mixed-methods approach, integrating urban morphology, spatial analysis, and archival research, findings reveal how these settlements were gradually ab…
Real estate agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History Conference
This report provides an overview of the 17th meeting of the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group, held on Gadigal Country at the University of Sydney from 11 to 13 July 2024. The 2024 conference welcomed papers on diverse topics, but particularly encouraged contributions relating to possession and dispossession, housing histories and FIRE (Fire, Insurance, Real Estate). Over 60 papers were presented. The use of real estate, and the d…
Planning for dispossession: The Continuing Legacy of Settler-Colonialism in Contemporary Urban Planning Practices
Building to the lowest common denominator: How uncertainty of approval, cost and delays discourage housing diversity in infill development projects
Even Geography of Upzoning: How Historic Urban Layouts, Land Use and Tenure Systems Influence Densification of Established Suburbs
Historic urban layouts influence subsequent development, but this is rarely acknowledged by planning strategies. This paper analyses the urban transformation of three residential blocks in Brisbane, Australia from initial delineation to 2023. Findings outline three key messages for policymakers seeking to redevelop low density residential areas to higher density. First, upzoning results in little residential densification in small, inner-city lot…
Character contradiction: The exclusionary nature of preservationist planning restrictions
Preservationist planning broadly describes planning instruments that purport to preserve physical qualities of neighbourhoods by preventing demolition of historic dwellings. Here, we analyse land use conversion of almost 6000 lots in Brisbane, Australia, to understand if, and how, preservationist planning impacts the built environment. Results demonstrate that preservationist planning suppresses multi-family housing construction, even where incre…
Urban “Blandscapes”: How the Practical Implementation of Planning Policy Reduces Land Use Diversity
Policies to increase density and diversity in Australian cities have been introduced to remedy the issues caused by the separation and homogenisation of land uses characterising urban development in the post-war period. Generally, the practical implementation of such policies is through rezoning. Here, we analyse zoning and land use data of 10,519 parcels in Brisbane to demonstrate that, despite policy aimed at land use diversification, practice …
How path dependent urban morphology restricts the effectiveness of rezoning for urban consolidation: Lessons from Brisbane, Australia
Existing urban morphology trajectories influence how planning interventions shape future development. Here, we use six purposefully selected neighborhoods, encompassing 10,519 individual properties, to analyze parcel-specific land use, zoning, and property boundary change over seven decades, to better understand the transformation of Brisbane, Australia. Our findings demonstrate the difficulty of overcoming the path dependency of urban morphology…
Targeted urban consolidation or ad hoc redevelopment? The influence of cadastral structure and change on the urban form of Brisbane, Australia
Cadastral structure exerts a significant influence on urban form. Efforts to adapt the built environment to accommodate social, environmental and economic shifts are often at odds with cadastral structure inflexibility, and urban consolidation can be particularly hampered by lot size and shapeThis research utilizes spatial analysis to examine the influence of cadastral change on infill development. Despite planning schemes encouraging urban conso…
Parcel amalgamation as a mechanism for achieving urban consolidation through densification: The fixity of property boundaries over time
Marriage for Moderns
Targeted urban consolidation or ad hoc redevelopment? The influence of cadastral structure and change on the urban form of Brisbane, Australia
Cadastral structure exerts a significant influence on urban form. Efforts to adapt the built environment to accommodate social, environmental and economic shifts are often at odds with cadastral structure inflexibility, and urban consolidation can be particularly hampered by lot size and shapeThis research utilizes spatial analysis to examine the influence of cadastral change on infill development. Despite planning schemes encouraging urban conso…
Parcel amalgamation as a mechanism for achieving urban consolidation through densification: The fixity of property boundaries over time
Planning for dispossession: The Continuing Legacy of Settler-Colonialism in Contemporary Urban Planning Practices
Building to the lowest common denominator: How uncertainty of approval, cost and delays discourage housing diversity in infill development projects
Character contradiction: The exclusionary nature of preservationist planning restrictions
Preservationist planning broadly describes planning instruments that purport to preserve physical qualities of neighbourhoods by preventing demolition of historic dwellings. Here, we analyse land use conversion of almost 6000 lots in Brisbane, Australia, to understand if, and how, preservationist planning impacts the built environment. Results demonstrate that preservationist planning suppresses multi-family housing construction, even where incre…
How path dependent urban morphology restricts the effectiveness of rezoning for urban consolidation: Lessons from Brisbane, Australia
Existing urban morphology trajectories influence how planning interventions shape future development. Here, we use six purposefully selected neighborhoods, encompassing 10,519 individual properties, to analyze parcel-specific land use, zoning, and property boundary change over seven decades, to better understand the transformation of Brisbane, Australia. Our findings demonstrate the difficulty of overcoming the path dependency of urban morphology…
Marriage for Moderns
Targeted urban consolidation or ad hoc redevelopment? The influence of cadastral structure and change on the urban form of Brisbane, Australia
Cadastral structure exerts a significant influence on urban form. Efforts to adapt the built environment to accommodate social, environmental and economic shifts are often at odds with cadastral structure inflexibility, and urban consolidation can be particularly hampered by lot size and shapeThis research utilizes spatial analysis to examine the influence of cadastral change on infill development. Despite planning schemes encouraging urban conso…
Parcel amalgamation as a mechanism for achieving urban consolidation through densification: The fixity of property boundaries over time
Urban “Blandscapes”: How the Practical Implementation of Planning Policy Reduces Land Use Diversity
Policies to increase density and diversity in Australian cities have been introduced to remedy the issues caused by the separation and homogenisation of land uses characterising urban development in the post-war period. Generally, the practical implementation of such policies is through rezoning. Here, we analyse zoning and land use data of 10,519 parcels in Brisbane to demonstrate that, despite policy aimed at land use diversification, practice …
How path dependent urban morphology restricts the effectiveness of rezoning for urban consolidation: Lessons from Brisbane, Australia
Existing urban morphology trajectories influence how planning interventions shape future development. Here, we use six purposefully selected neighborhoods, encompassing 10,519 individual properties, to analyze parcel-specific land use, zoning, and property boundary change over seven decades, to better understand the transformation of Brisbane, Australia. Our findings demonstrate the difficulty of overcoming the path dependency of urban morphology…
Even Geography of Upzoning: How Historic Urban Layouts, Land Use and Tenure Systems Influence Densification of Established Suburbs
Historic urban layouts influence subsequent development, but this is rarely acknowledged by planning strategies. This paper analyses the urban transformation of three residential blocks in Brisbane, Australia from initial delineation to 2023. Findings outline three key messages for policymakers seeking to redevelop low density residential areas to higher density. First, upzoning results in little residential densification in small, inner-city lot…
Character contradiction: The exclusionary nature of preservationist planning restrictions
Preservationist planning broadly describes planning instruments that purport to preserve physical qualities of neighbourhoods by preventing demolition of historic dwellings. Here, we analyse land use conversion of almost 6000 lots in Brisbane, Australia, to understand if, and how, preservationist planning impacts the built environment. Results demonstrate that preservationist planning suppresses multi-family housing construction, even where incre…
Real estate agency: Land, Housing and Finance in Urban and Planning History Conference
This report provides an overview of the 17th meeting of the Australasian Urban History/Planning History Group, held on Gadigal Country at the University of Sydney from 11 to 13 July 2024. The 2024 conference welcomed papers on diverse topics, but particularly encouraged contributions relating to possession and dispossession, housing histories and FIRE (Fire, Insurance, Real Estate). Over 60 papers were presented. The use of real estate, and the d…
Planning for dispossession: The Continuing Legacy of Settler-Colonialism in Contemporary Urban Planning Practices
Building to the lowest common denominator: How uncertainty of approval, cost and delays discourage housing diversity in infill development projects
Queer Space in Transition: A Durkheimian Analysis of the Transformation of Queer Geographies
The twenty‐first century has seen rapid developments to the structure of queer space. Following technological development and the shuttering of LGBTQ+ bars, clubs, and other physical institutions, transitory queer spaces such as digital networks and pop‐up events have become important forms of queer spatial life, bringing into question how queer social organization and community can be sustained. This article applies an intersectional, neo‐Durkhe…
Urban planning as a settler colonial tool: Land, control and extractive settlement on the Queensland (Australia) frontier
Colonial settlement was a spatial strategy through which territory was claimed, governed, and made extractable. Conventional origin stories of planning in the Anglosphere emphasize social reform in nineteenth-century industrial cities, yet frontier town-making was also central to the development of planning instruments. This paper examines Queensland’s colonial frontier as a key site where subdivision layouts, surveying practices, and administrat…
Urban morphology and frontier town planning in Queensland: A comparative analysis of block and lot patterns
This paper presents the first systematic comparative urban morphological analysis of frontier towns in Queensland (Australia), extending global urban morphology research beyond the well-studied centres of major metropolitan cities. Drawing on digitized nineteenth-century survey plans for 48 frontier settlements, the study examines block and lot configurations across diverse settlement contexts and compares these patterns with a set of benchmark r…
Misaligned Policy and Practice: Does Upzoning’s Implicit Reliance on Land Assembly Undermine Densification Goals
The Limits of Upzoning: Historic Land Use, Amenity, and Lot-Scale Drivers of Densification
Tracing informality: The spatial legacy of post-war informal settlements in Brisbane, Australia
Informal settlements are often associated with cities in the global South, yet they also emerge in high-income countries during periods of acute housing shortage. This study examines the spatial evolution of informal settlements, including temporary housing camps, in Brisbane (Australia). Through a mixed-methods approach, integrating urban morphology, spatial analysis, and archival research, findings reveal how these settlements were gradually ab…
Civil engineering (9 works) · Engineering (9 works) · Urban planning (9 works) · Environmental planning (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Land use (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Law (4 works)