Dr Nicole Gurran
Title: Dr
Name: Nicole Gurran
Position: Associate Professor
Location: Room 546, Wilkinson Building (G04), 148 City Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Phone: +61 2 9351 7729
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Profile
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.
Gurran’s research projects include the establishment of the Australian Urban Land Use Planning Policy Monitor, enabling the collective analysis of statutory controls for more than 600 local jurisdictions across the country. She is the chief investigator on the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) project ‘International Practice in Planning for Affordable Housing’. She is also examining best practice in climate change planning for high growth coastal communities for the National Sea Change Taskforce. Gurran’s previous work has examined coastal growth pressures, local government approaches to housing and sustainable urban development, planning for the interface between protected areas and neighbouring settlements and indigenous issues in planning.
Gurran is the author of Urban Land Use Planning in Australia: Introducing Policy and Practice in NSW (Sydney University Press 2007). Her research monograph “Meeting the Sea Change Challenge: Sea Change Communities in Coastal Australia” for the National Sea Change Task Force, won the NSW Planning Institute of Australia overall President’s award and the award for Research and Scholarship in 2005.
Gurran is on the executive board of the International Urban Planning and Environment Association (UPE), on the editorial board of the journal Urban Policy and Research (Taylor and Francis) and a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).
She teaches core urban planning and housing subjects at post graduate level, and undertakes post graduate and doctoral research supervision.
Courses Taught
Planning Procedures
History and Theory in Urban Planning
Planning Research Report
Planning Research Dissertation
Housing Policy and Assistance (offered on a biannual basis)
Housing and Urban and Regional Development (offered on a biannual basis)
Research Grants / Commissions
2006-07 "Australian Urban Land Use Planning Policy Monitor" (University of Sydney Research and Development Grant
2006-07 "Planning for Climate Change in Coastal Communities" (Commissioned research, National Sea Change Taskforce, Chief Investigator)
2006-07 "International Practice in Planning for Affordable Housing: Lessons for Australia" Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) (Chief Investigator, with Doug Baker (Queensland University of Technology, Vivienne Milligan and Ed Blakely)
2006 "Best Practice Models of Local and Regional Planning for Sea Change Communities" (Commissioned Research, National Sea Change Taskforce (Chief Investigator, with Ed Blakely)
2005-06 "Development and Testing of an Evaluation Framework for Affordable Housing Services in Australia" (AHURI) (Co-investigator, with Vivienne Milligan and Peter Phibbs)
2005 "Meeting the Sea Change Challenge: Sea Change Communities in Coastal Australia" (Commissioned Research, National Sea Change Taskforce (Chief Investigator, with Ed Blakely)
2004 "A Review of Private Rental Support Programs and Their Effectiveness in Assisting Tenants on Low Incomes" (AHURI) (Co-investigator, with Keith Jacobs, Mike Berry, Alice Stoakes, and Peter Phibbs)
2004 "A Practical Framework for Expanding Affordable Housing Services in Australia: Learning From Experience" (AHURI) (Co-investigator, with Vivienne Milligan and Peter Phibbs)
2003 "Boarding Houses and Supply Side Intervention" AHURI (Co-investigator, with John Minnery and Peter Phibbs)
2003 "Participatory Planning and Design: Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers" (United Nations Millennium Project; Task Force 8 Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers) (Commissioned research review, with Dr Anna Rubbo)
2002 "Monitoring Community Attitudes to National Parks" Collaborative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Sydney University of Technology (Commissioned review)
2002 "Housing Policy and Sustainable Urban Development: Evaluating the use of local housing strategies in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria" Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) (Chief Investigator)
2002 "Protected Areas: Sustaining Ecological and Cultural Territories in the Pacific Rim" Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Collaborative Research Seed Grant Program (With Dr Terre Satterfield, University of British Columbia)
Publications
MonographsGurran, N 2007, Australian Urban Land Use Planning: Introducing Statutory Planning Practice in New South Wales, Sydney University Press, Sydney. (available www.sup.usyd.edu.au May 2007)
Articles in Refereed Journals / Conference Proceedings
Gurran, N, Blakely, E 2007, "Suffer a Sea Change? Contrasting Perspectives towards urban policy and migration in coastal Australia", Australian Geography 38(1) pp.113-132.
Gurran, N, Blakely, E, Squires, C forthcoming, Governance responses to rapid growth in environmentally sensitive areas of coastal Australia, Coastal Management.
Squires, C and Gurran, N 2006, "Planning for Affordable Housing in Coastal Sea Change Communities", Darby, S, Falatau, P and Hafekost, I (eds) Building for Diversity, Refereed Conference Proceedings, National Housing Conference, 26-28 October 2005, pp. 381-403.
Gurran, N 2005, "Planning at the Conservation Frontier: Reconciling National Parks and Exurban Communities", Australian Planner 42(1) pp. 31-38.
Gurran, N & Phibbs, P 2004, "Indigenous interests and planning education: Models from Australia, New Zealand and North America", Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS) Conference, Perth, September 2004, pp. 68-82.
Gurran, N 2003, "Housing Locally: Positioning Australian Local Government Housing for a New Century", Urban Policy and Research, Vol 21, No. 4, December 2003, pp. 393-412.
Gurran, N, Phibbs, P 2003, "Reconciling Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Land Management Concepts in Planning Curricula", Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS) Conference, Auckland, September 2003.
Gurran, N 2004, "Integrating Local People And National Parks in Rural Australia: Community Involvement And Support For Conservation", Camrada, I, Manfredo, M, Mulas, F and Teel, T (eds) Proceedings of the International Society for Social and Natural Resources (ISSRM) Conference, La Maddelena, Sardinia, September 2002, pp273-284.
Major Research Reports / working papers
Gurran, N, Milligan, V, Baker, D, Beth Bugg, L forthcoming, "International Practice in Planning for Affordable Housing: Lessons for Australia", Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Positioning Paper, Melbourne.
Gurran, N, Squires, C, Blakely, E 2006, "Meeting the Sea Change Challenge: Best Practice Models of Local and Regional Planning for Sea Change Communities", Report for the National Sea Change Task Force, Planning Research Centre, University of Sydney.
Gurran, N, Squires, C, Blakely, E 2005, "Meeting the Sea Change Challenge: Sea Change Communities in Coastal Australia", Report for the National Sea Change Task Force, Planning Research Centre, University of Sydney.
Jacobs, K, Natalier, K, Slatter, M, Berry, M, Stoakes, A, Seelig, T, Hutchison, H, Grieve, S, Phibbs, P, Gurran, N, 2005, "A Review of Private Rental Support Programs", Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report, Melbourne.
Greenhalgh, E, Anne Miller, Minnery, J, Gurran, N, Jacobs, K, 2004, "Boarding Houses and Supply – Side Intervention", Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Positioning Paper, Melbourne.
Greenhalgh, E, Minnery, J, Gurran, N, Jacobs, K, Phibbs, P 2004, "Boarding Houses and Supply – Side Intervention", Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report, Melbourne.
Milligan, V, Phibbs, P, Fagan, K, Gurran, N 2004, "A Practical Framework for Expanding Affordable Housing Services in Australia: Learning from Experience", Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report, Melbourne.
Gurran, N 2003, "Housing Policy and Sustainable Urban Development: Evaluating the Use of Local Housing Strategies in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria," Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Canberra. (www.ahuri.edu.au)
Rubbo, A, Gurran, N, Taussig, M, Hull, M 2003, "Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers, Paper Four: Participatory Planning and Design", United Nations Millenium Project Taskforce Eight on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers.
Gurran, N 2002, "Housing Policy and Sustainable Urban Development: Evaluating the Use of Local Housing Strategies in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria," Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Positioning Paper, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Canberra. (www.ahuri.edu.au)
Gurran, N 2002, Planning for Park Communities in New South Wales, Interim Report No. 3 Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney.
Gurran, N 2001, Planning for Park Communities in New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park Survey of Local Residents, Interim Report No.2 Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney.
Gurran, N 2001, Planning for Park Communities in New South Wales, Bundjalung National Park Survey of Local Residents, Interim Report No.1 Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, March 2001.
Reviews / invited papers in journals
Gurran, N 2006, "Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities", Urban Policy and Research, Vol 24(3), pp. 424-427. (Book Review)
Gurran, N, Blakely, E, Squires, S 2005, "Planning for sea change in coastal Australia", Local Government Reporter, 3(4), pp.101-105.
Gurran, N, Squires, C, Blakely, E 2005, "Planning for Sea Change in Coastal Australia", Australian Planner, 42(4), pp. 10-11.
Gurran, N 2004, "Towards Cosmopolis" Urban Policy and Research 22(4), 495-503. (Book Review)
Conference presentations
Beatley, T and Gurran, N 2005, "Coastal Management in Australia and the US: Comparative Analysis and Planning Implications", presented to the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Kansas, October 2005.
Gurran, N 2003, "Housing and Sustainable Urban Development: Evaluating Local Housing Strategies in NSW, Queensland and Victoria", Planning Institute of Australia National Conference, Adelaide, 2003.
Gurran, N 2002, "Crossing the Boundaries: Conservation and Settlement Planning in National Park Communities of NSW Australia", Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Balitmore, USA, November 2002.
Gurran, N 2002, "Sustaining Human and Ecological Territories - Urban Planning and Biodiversity Conservation in National Park Communities of New South Wales, Australia", Fifth Symposium of the International Urban Planning and Environment (IUPE) Association, Oxford, UK, September 2002.
Gurran, N 2002, "Planning for environmental stewardship in NSW World Heritage Areas", Planning Institute of Australia Conference NSW Division, Sydney, September 20, 2002.
Gurran, N 2002, "Planning at the Conservation Frontier: National Parks and Neighbouring Communities in New South Wales", joint Royal Australian Planning Institute, New Zealand Planning Institute Congress, Wellington, April 2002.
Phibbs, P, Gurran, N, Mead, M 2002, "Reconnecting theory and practice in planning education: Surveys of planning graduates and their employers" Australia New Zealand Association of Planning Schools (ANZAPS) Conference, Melbourne 2002
Other publications
Jacobs, K, Natalier, K, Slatter, M, Berry, M, Stoakes, A, Seelig, T, Hutchison, H, Grieve, S, Phibbs, P, Gurran, N, 2006, "How Effective Are Private Rental Support Programs", Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Research and Policy Bulletin, Melbourne.
Milligan, V, Phibbs, P, Fagan, K and Gurran, N 2005, "Issue 51: Not for Profit Affordable Housing - The Australian Experience", Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Research and Policy Bulletin, Melbourne.
Gurran, N 2004, "Local Governments and Housing", Australian Housing and Urban Research Research and Policy Bulletin, Melbourne.
Gurran, N 2003, "Local Governments and Housing", Community Housing Forum, Vol 8(2) - June 2003, p. 1.
Opinion pieces
"Cheaper homes often come at a high price", Sydney Morning Herald 21/1/07
Media Interviews / Reportage of research (2005/07)
- SMH 20/1/07
- The Age 7/2/07
- Sun Herald 7/5/06
- Transcan Vol 7(3) 2006
- National Nine News ("Blueprint to Manage Coastal Areas") 5/5/2006
- Mangrove Mountain and Districts Community News 17/2/2006
- Tweed Daily News 25/1/2006
- The Australian 24/1/2006
- Sunshine Coast Times 23/1/2006
- Transcan Vol 6(4) 2005
- The Independent Weekly (May 1-7 2005)
- KOFM Newcastle (30/5/05)
- ABC Wide Bay (9/5/05)
- ABC Radio WA (4/5/05)
- Kingborough News 15/3/2005
- Coastal CRC Newsletter March 2005
- Sydney University News 29/3/05
- Waves Vol. 11 (1), 2005
- Newcastle Herald 15/2/05
- Hobart Mercury 14/2/05
- Sydney Morning Herald 15/2/05
- ABC Central Coast, 17/2/05
- ABC North Coast, 16/2/05
- ABC Illawarra, 15/2/05
- ABC Drive, 15/2/05
- 2BL (with Angela Catterns), 15/2/05
- ABC South Coast, 9/2/05
Other Media
Gurran, 2006, "Best Practice Planning Models for Sea Change Communities DVD", Commissioned by the National Sea Change Taskforce (60 minutes).