Associate Professor Dallas Rogers
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Associate Professor Dallas Rogers

Associate Professor
Head of Urban Discipline
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G04 - Wilkinson Building
The University of Sydney
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Associate Professor Dallas Rogers
Dallas is Head of Urbanism in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. He works on the colonial and contemporary politics of land, housing, property and urban development. His research spans urban and historical geography with a focus on the intersections of race, class, nature, technology and capital.
Dallas leads major studies of urbanism funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other government and non-government funders. His current ARC studies include: ‘Digital technologies and the private rental sector in Australia’ (LP190100619); ‘Inequality in Australia: housing in the asset society’ (SR200200443); and ‘The University and the City’ (DP220102094).
Dallas is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy. He has written well over 50 opinion pieces for The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and The Conversation. Dallas is a radio-maker and produces radio features for ABC Radio National. He is the founder of City Road Podcast, amongst others radio projects.
Project titleResearch student
The promises of digital engagement platforms: Towards an urban theory of moral planningBenai PHAM
Urban transformation under state transformation: The spatial political economy of speculative real estate megaproject development in Greater JakartaHenrico SAERAN
The Yellow Australian Dream: Sydney's Uptown entertainment machine 1984-2000Zeng WU

Publications

Selected Grants

2025

  • Waste to Resilience: Sanitation Against Stunting and Climate Vulnerability in Informal Coastal Areas, Hespanhol L, Rogers D, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre/SSEAC Incubator Program

2024

  • Mapping the Frontiers of Private Property in Australia, Leach A, Rogers D, Troy L, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP)
  • Implications of data hunger in housing: protecting Australian renters, Maalsen S, Rogers D, Humphry J, Wolifson P, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Ltd (AHURI)/National Housing Research Program - Research Projects