Associate Professor Nicole Gurran

Nicole Gurran is an urban planner and policy analyst whose research focuses on comparative land use planning systems and approaches to housing and ecological sustainability. She has been with the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney since 2002. Prior to this time she practiced as a planner in several state government roles, concerning local environmental plan making, environmental management, and housing policy.

Dr Duanfang Lu

Duanfang Lu is an architect with core research interests in Modern Chinese architectural and planning history, contemporary architectural and urban theories, modern architecture and urban development in developing countries, housing design and neighbourhood planning.

Martin Payne

Martin Payne is an urban planner with core expertise in urban development, environmental planning and ecologically sustainable design in urban areas. Martin holds a masters from Colorado State.

Dr Krishna Shrestha

Krishna Shrestha is an environmental geographer with core interests in the political ecology of natural resource planning, policy and management. His current research focuses on the multi-scalar politics of collective action, equity and sustainability in community-based natural resource management particularly in a comparative context of Australia and South Asia (Nepal and India).