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Professor Kurt Iveson
Room 466
Phone
+61 2 9351 3627
Address
F09 - Madsen Building
The University of Sydney
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Member of Sydney Environment Institute
Member of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre
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I am a Professor of Urban Geography in the School of Geosciences. As an urban geographer, I work to understand the processes that shape urban life, and to figure out how we can democratise those processes to make more equitable and sustainable cities.
How can we make our cities more equitable and sustainable? This is the big question that has animated my research, and over the years I’ve approached it from a range of angles. I’ve explored how public spaces are used for political and cultural expression, and how their democratic potential has been reshaped by different forms of policing and technology. I’ve examined the role of planning in addressing urban injustice and inequality, with a particular focus on the justice principles that could inform more effective social planning. I’ve researched the ‘bottom-up’ strategies that urban inhabitants have used in their efforts to build more just cities – from informal interventions in their neighbourhoods through to organised social movements. And I’ve considered the significance of cities and urbanisation for democracy and its future. In most of this work, I’ve also been lucky to have some fantastic collaborators.
I’m currently working with colleagues on a few specific projects.
- Amanda Tattersall and I are finishing up a project called People Power in Cities, drawing on research from a range of cities to help us understand the different strategies people power movements are using to change their cities for the better.
- Dieter Hochuli, Wendy Murray and I have teamed up to explore the hidden ecologies of Sydney’s railway corridors.
- Marilu Melo Zurita and I are digging into the way that land, capital, and labour have been assembled and contested in the process of making space for urban telecommunications infrastructure.
I also co-convene the Urban Crew at the University of Sydney – an informal network of staff and students working on urban stuff. Check out our first book of essays and artworks, Sydney – We Need to Talk! Vol 1.
Undergraduate Teaching:
GEOS1001 Earth Environment and Society
GEOS2123 The Geography of Cities and Regions
GEOS3520 Urban Citizenship and Sustainabiltiy
| Project title | Research student |
|---|---|
| Assembling Metabolic Flow: Waters and infrastructures in Jakarta Metropolitan Area | Wahyu Kusuma ASTUTI |
| Indigeneity, Protest, and the Urban Contest: The Spatial Implications of First Nations Protest in Sydney | Seth DIAS |
| Everyday Adaptation in the Informal Settlements of Suva, Fiji | Vosawale LESUMA |
| Bagaraybang Ngurumbang: Restoring healthy Country through agency sovereignty self-determination and self-governance in the rebuilding of the Wiradyuri Nation | Katie MOORE |
| Capital City Relocation Plan in Indonesia: Impacts on Land Access Arrangements | Ardiyanto NUGROHO |
Selected publications
Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities
(University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
Planning and Diversity in the City: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Publics and the City
(Blackwell Publishers, 2007)
Publications
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Books
- Fincher, R., Iveson, K., Leitner, H., Preston, V. (2019). Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [More Information]
- Fincher, R., Iveson, K. (2008). Planning and Diversity in the City: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Iveson, K. (2007). Publics and the City. Malden,Oxford,Carlton: Blackwell Publishers. [More Information]
Book Chapters
- Davidson, M., Iveson, K. (2021). Spacing Ranciere's Politics. In Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl, Nikolai Roskamm (Eds.), [Un]Grounding Post-Foundational Geographies, (pp. 133-152). Germany: Transcript Verlag. [More Information]
- Alizadeh, T., Iveson, K. (2020). Digital Cities. In Dallas Rogers, Adrienne Keane, Tooran Alizadeh, & Jacqueline Nelson (Eds.), Understanding Urbanism, (pp. 151-168). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Iveson, K., Tattersall, A. (2020). The Promise and Practice of Urban Alliances. In Bryan S. Turner, Hannah Wolf, Gregor Fitzi, Jürgen Mackert (Eds.), Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis Volume 3: Figurations of Conflict and Resistance, (pp. 132-144). Cham: Routledge. [More Information]
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Journals
- Iveson, K., Riboldi, M. (2024). Navigating the dilemmas of mutual aid: International student organising in Sydney during the COVID-19 pandemic. Geographical Research, 62(2), 233-247. [More Information]
- Tattersall, A., Iveson, K. (2024). PREFIGURING PRAGMATICALLY? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 48(3), 423-441. [More Information]
- Iveson, K., Tattersall, A. (2023). Democratising cities: introduction. City, 27(5-6), 869-889. [More Information]
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Conferences
- Iveson, K. (2009). Too Public or Too Private? The politics of privacy in the real-time city. Engaging Data: First International Forum on the Application and Management of Personal Electronic Information, USA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Magazine / Newspaper Articles
- Troy, L., Rogers, D., Power, E., Pawson, H., Iveson, K., Crabtree, L., Darcy, M., Phibbs, P. (2016). Sydney needs higher affordable housing targets. The Conversation. [More Information]
Report
- Webster, S., Pittaway, E., Gillies-palmer, Z., Schlosberg, D., Matous, P., Longman, J., Howard, A., Bailie, J., Viney, G., Verlie, B., Celermajer, D., Naderpajouh, N., Rawsthorne, M., Iveson, K., Troy, J., et al (2024). Empowering Communities, Harnessing Local Knowledges: Self-Organising Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Other
- Boucher, A., Bryant, G., Conley Wright, A., Cooper, R., Gauja, A., Iveson, K., Stears, M., Tattersall, A., Soutphommasane, T. (2020), Principles for a policy response to COVID-19.
Research Reports
- Iveson, K., McAuliffe, C., Murray, W., Peet, M. (2015). Reframing Graffiti and Street Art in the City of Sydney, (pp. 1 - 124). Sydney, Australia: City of Sydney.
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2024
- Webster, S., Pittaway, E., Gillies-palmer, Z., Schlosberg, D., Matous, P., Longman, J., Howard, A., Bailie, J., Viney, G., Verlie, B., Celermajer, D., Naderpajouh, N., Rawsthorne, M., Iveson, K., Troy, J., et al (2024). Empowering Communities, Harnessing Local Knowledges: Self-Organising Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Iveson, K., Riboldi, M. (2024). Navigating the dilemmas of mutual aid: International student organising in Sydney during the COVID-19 pandemic. Geographical Research, 62(2), 233-247. [More Information]
- Tattersall, A., Iveson, K. (2024). PREFIGURING PRAGMATICALLY? Prefigurative Politics and the Constellation of People Power Strategies for Winning Affordable Housing in Cape Town. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 48(3), 423-441. [More Information]
2023
- Iveson, K., Tattersall, A. (2023). Democratising cities: introduction. City, 27(5-6), 869-889. [More Information]
- Iveson, K., Sisson, A. (2023). Transmission and territory: Urban bordering during COVID-19. Political Geography, 104. [More Information]
- Tattersall, A., Iveson, K. (2023). Urban people power strategies in a connected world: exploring the patterns of practice, exchange, translation and learning. City, 27(5-6), 962-984. [More Information]
2022
- Iveson, K., McAuliffe, C. (2022). Informality from above in the governance of graffiti and street art in Sydney. Urban Geography. [More Information]
- Tattersall, A., Iveson, K. (2022). People Power Strategies in Contempoary Housing Movements. International Journal of Housing Policy, 22(2), 251-277. [More Information]
2021
- Davidson, M., Iveson, K. (2021). Spacing Ranciere's Politics. In Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl, Nikolai Roskamm (Eds.), [Un]Grounding Post-Foundational Geographies, (pp. 133-152). Germany: Transcript Verlag. [More Information]
2020
- Garrett, B., Melo Zurita, M., Iveson, K. (2020). Boring cities - The privatisation of subterranea. City, 24(1-2), 276-285. [More Information]
- Alizadeh, T., Iveson, K. (2020). Digital Cities. In Dallas Rogers, Adrienne Keane, Tooran Alizadeh, & Jacqueline Nelson (Eds.), Understanding Urbanism, (pp. 151-168). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
- Boucher, A., Bryant, G., Conley Wright, A., Cooper, R., Gauja, A., Iveson, K., Stears, M., Tattersall, A., Soutphommasane, T. (2020), Principles for a policy response to COVID-19.
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2019
- Fincher, R., Iveson, K., Leitner, H., Preston, V. (2019). Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [More Information]
- Iveson, K., Maalsen, S. (2019). Social control in the networked city: Datafied dividuals, disciplined individuals and powers of assembly. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 37(2), 331-349. [More Information]
- Iveson, K., Lyons, C., Clark, S., Weir, S. (2019). The informal Australian city. Australian Geographer, 50(1), 11-27. [More Information]
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2018
- Garrett, B., Iveson, K. (2018). Domains: Public and Private. Sydney, We Need to Talk!, (pp. 46-50). University of Sydney: Wendy Murray.
- Iveson, K., Fincher, R., Gleeson, B. (2018). Iris Marion Young and urban geographies of difference. Geografiska Annaler. Series B. Human Geography, 100(3), 287-293. [More Information]
- Davidson, M., Iveson, K. (2018). Presupposing democracy: Placing politics in the urban. In Theresa Enright, Ugo Rossi (Eds.), The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism, (pp. 27-43). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
2017
- Iveson, K. (2017). 'Making space public' through occupation: The Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 49(3), 537-554. [More Information]
- Vigneswaran, D., Iveson, K., Low, S. (2017). Problems, publicity and public space: A resurgent debate. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 49(3), 496-502. [More Information]
2016
- Low, S., Iveson, K. (2016). Propositions for more just urban public spaces. City, 20(1), 10-31. [More Information]
- Troy, L., Rogers, D., Power, E., Pawson, H., Iveson, K., Crabtree, L., Darcy, M., Phibbs, P. (2016). Sydney needs higher affordable housing targets. The Conversation. [More Information]
2015
- Davidson, M., Iveson, K. (2015). Beyond city limits: A conceptual and political defense of 'the city' as an anchoring concept for critical urban theory. City, 19(5), 646-664. [More Information]
- Fincher, R., Iveson, K. (2015). Conviviality as an Ethic of Care in the City. In Gibson, K., Rose, D. B. and Fincher, R. (Eds.), Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, (pp. 23-27). New York: Punctum Books.
- Iveson, K. (2015). Graffiti Is Life. In Gibson, K., Rose, D. B. and Fincher, R. (Eds.), Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene, (pp. 77-81). New York: Punctum Books.
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2014
- Connell, J., Iveson, K. (2014). An Eruv for St Ives? Religion, identity, place and conflict on the Sydney north shore. Australian Geographer, 45(4), 429-446. [More Information]
- Iveson, K. (2014). Building a City For "The People": The Politics of Alliance-Building in the Sydney Green Ban Movement. Antipode, 46(4), 992-1013. [More Information]
- Troy, L., Iveson, K. (2014). Featured graphic. A community-led critique of accessibility of Sydney's public transportation network. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 46(10), 2273-2275. [More Information]
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2013
- Iveson, K. (2013). Cities within the City: Do-It-Yourself Urbanism and the Right to the City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(3), 941-956. [More Information]
- Iveson, K. (2013). Reporting on the unreported with Paul Mason: Scenes from Sydney, 2011. City, 17(5), 674-682. [More Information]
- Haworth, B., Bruce, E., Iveson, K. (2013). Spatio-temporal analysis of graffiti occurrence in an inner-city urban environment. Applied Geography, 38, 53-63. [More Information]
2012
- Iveson, K. (2012). Branded cities: outdoor advertising, urban governance, and the outdoor media landscape. Antipode, 44(1), 151-174. [More Information]
- Fincher, R., Iveson, K. (2012). Justice and Injustice in the City. Geographical Research, 50(3), 231-241. [More Information]
2011
- Iveson, K., Fincher, R. (2011). "Just Diversity" in the City of Difference. In Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (Eds.), The New Blackwell Companion to The City, (pp. 407-418). Malden, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. [More Information]
- McAuliffe, C., Iveson, K. (2011). Art and Crime (and Other Things Besides .. ): Conceptualising Graffiti in the City. Geography Compass, 5(3), 128-143. [More Information]
- Fincher, R., Iveson, K. (2011). Conceptualizing Recognition in Planning. In Susan Fainstein and Scott Campbell (Eds.), Readings in Urban Theory, (pp. 129-146). UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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2010
- Iveson, K. (2010). Graffiti, street art and the city. City, 14(1), 25-32. [More Information]
- Iveson, K. (2010). Seeking Spatial Justice: Some reflections from Sydney. City, 14(6), 607-611. [More Information]
- Iveson, K. (2010). Some critical reflections on being critical: Reading for deviance, dominance or difference? City, 14(4), 434-441. [More Information]
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2009
- Epstein, K., Iveson, K. (2009). Locking Down the City (Well, Not Quite): APEC 2007 and urban citizenship in Sydney. Australian Geographer, 40(3), 271-295. [More Information]
- Iveson, K. (2009). Responding to the financial crisis: From competitive to cooperative urbanism. Journal of Australian Political Economy, 64, 211-221.
- Iveson, K. (2009). The City versus the Media? Mapping the Mobile Geographies of Public Address. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33(1), 241-245. [More Information]
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2008
- Fincher, R., Iveson, K. (2008). Planning and Diversity in the City: Redistribution, Recognition and Encounter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [More Information]
2007
- Iveson, K. (2007). Publics and the City. Malden,Oxford,Carlton: Blackwell Publishers. [More Information]
- McGuirk, P., Dowling, R., Gibson, C., Iveson, K., Mee, K. (2007). Urban vitality, culture and the public realm. In R Atkinson, T Dalton, B Norman and Wood G. (Eds.), Urban 45: New Ideas for Australia's Cities, (pp. 51-54). Melbourne: RMIT.
2006
- Iveson, K. (2006). Cities for angry young people? From exclusion and inclusion to engagement in urban policy. In Brendan Gleeson and Neil Sipe (Eds.), Creating child friendly cities: reinstating kids in the city, (pp. 49-66). Abingdon, UK: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis. [More Information]
- Iveson, K. (2006). Strangers in the Cosmopolis. In J. Binnie, J. Holloway, S. Millington & C. Young (Eds.), Cosmopolitan Urbanism, (pp. 70-86). Abingdon, UK: Routledge imprint of Taylor & Francis.
2003
- Holden, A., Iveson, K. (2003). Designs on the Urban: New Labour's urban renaissance and the spaces of citizenship. City, 7(1), 57-72.
- Iveson, K. (2003). Justifying Exclusion: the politics of public space and the dispute over access to McIvers ladies' baths, Sydney. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 10(3), 215-228. [More Information]
2001
- Iveson, K., Scalmer, S. (2001). Carnival at Crown Casino: S11 as party and protest. In Graham St John (Eds.), Free NRG: Notes from the Edge of the Dancefloor, (pp. 348-369). Melbourne Australia: Common Ground Publishing.
- Iveson, K. (2001). Counterpublics and public space: comparing Aboriginal and labour movement protest at Parliament House Canberra. In Raymond Markey (Eds.), Labour and Community. Australia: University of Wollongong Press.
Selected Grants
2017
- Co-Producing Responses to 'Crisis' - Informal accommodation and vulnerable households in metropolitan Sydney: the scale, drivers and policy responses, Gurran N, Pill M, Phibbs P, Maalsen S, Alizadeh T, Iveson K, DVC Research/Sydney Policy Lab
2016
- ORGANISING THE 21ST CENTURY CITY: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF URBAN ALLIANCES AS CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT, Iveson K, The Henry Halloran Trust/Incubator
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In the media
2023 YIMBY or NIMBY? Both are Worse, Arena Magazine (with Alistair Sisson)
2022 What are the laws around protests? ABC Radio 702 interview
2022 Public Transport as Public Space, ABC702 with Richard Glover, Self-Improvement Wednesday podcast
2021 How outdoor advertising is reshaping our cities, ABC702 with Richard Glover, Self-Improvement Wednesday podcast
2021How urban soundscapes affect humans and wildlife — and what may have changed in the hush of lockdown, The Conversation (with Dieter Hochuli)
2020 Vertical Transport in Cities, ABC702 with Richard Glover, Self-Improvement Wednesday podcast
2019 Down to Earth FBi Radio Skywriting and the Atmospheric Commons
2019 The Conversation New minister for public spaces is welcome – now here are ten priorities for action
2018 The Conversation To create safer cities for everyone, we need to avoid security that threatens
