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Lucy Groenhart
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Lucy Groenhart
Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning
Room 544, 148 City Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
+61 2 9351 5321

A lot of planning focuses on making bits of the city that are already nice a little bit nicer. My passion is how we can improve the ‘difficult’ areas of the city – public housing estates on the urban fringe, areas with poor public transport, few jobs, or a decaying housing stock.


Research interests . Academic qualifications . Current Teaching . Publications, Lectures and Exhbitions . Awards and scholarships

Lucy is an urban policy academic with expertise in housing policy, strategic planning, urban economics, and policy evaluation. She has qualitative and quantitative skills, and has worked in academia and policy consulting in New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand. Lucy completed her PhD ‘Evaluating Social Housing Policy: A Wicked Problem?’ at the City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, she taught in the Environment and Planning Program at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her key research interests are housing policy, both Australian and International, with a focus on social housing tenure mix policies and estate regeneration; and urban policy evaluation, with a focus on the application of innovative quantitative and mixed methods techniques to evidence based policy.

Research interests

  • Australian and International Housing Policy
  • Policy and Project Appraisal and Evaluation
  • Urban Policy and Economics
  • Strategic Land Use Planning

Academic qualifications

  • PhD, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • Masters of Planning Practice with First Class Honours, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • Bachelor of Arts, History Major, University of Otago, New Zealand

Current teaching

  • PLAN9063: Foundations of Environmental Planning
  • PLAN9069: Urban Design and Development Control
  • PLAN9048: Environmental Design and Planning
  • PLAN9045: Economic Tools and Community Development

Publications, Lectures and Exhibitions

  • Groenhart, L. Tenure Mix and Social Housing: What is the evidence base?, paper delivered to the Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference, Auckland, 2010.
  • Groenhart, L. and Dalton, T. The Australian Housing Industry: Structure, Conduct and Performance, paper delivered to the Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference, Auckland, 2010.
  • Buxton, M. and Groenhart, L. Urban Growth Boundaries and Housing Supply, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home, Forthcoming 2011.
  • Judd, B., Olsberg, D., Quinn, J., Groenhart, L., Demirbilek, O. Housing, Land and Neighbourhood Use by Older Home Owners, Final Report, Sydney: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, 2010.
  • Groenhart, L. Affordable Housing: The Community Housing Sector in New Zealand, presentation to Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) Annual Board Meeting, Wellington, October 9th 2007.
  • Groenhart, L. Economic Modelling of Public Housing Estate Renewal, paper delivered to Sustainable Urban Areas, The European Network of Housing Researchers International Conference, Rotterdam, June 2007.
  • Groenhart, L. Spatial Implications of the ‘New Economy’ for Office Development in Australia’s Cities’, paper delivered to the State of Australian Cities Conference, Brisbane, November 2005.
  • Groenhart, L. and McDougall, A. Recent Experiences in Facilitating Urban Change in Victorian Activity Centres, Australian Planner, March 2007.

Awards and scholarships

  • Minister's Award for Early Career Researchers, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (2010)
  • Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry), University of New South Wales (2006)
  • Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute PhD Top Up Scholarship (2006)
  • Masters Scholarship, Auckland University (2003)
  • Summer Research Scholarship, School of History, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University (2002)
  • Anna P. Stout Scholarship in Arts, University of Otago (2002)
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