ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GREG YOUNG
PhD (UNSW); MA (USyd); Dip. Urban Studies (MQ); BA Hons (UTAS).
[email protected]
Biographical details
Greg Young is a cultural and planning theorist, planner and writer whose
public strategies and scholarship have established him as a global leader
in his field. His cultural paradigm for planning and governance and original
concept and model for ‘culturised planning’ is now utilised internationally.
He is the author of articles for Planning Theory and Planning History, the
influential book Reshaping Planning with Culture (Ashgate) and was
principal editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and
Culture (2013). He has authored and contributed to numerous landmark
Australian cultural and planning strategies such as Australia’s first
National Cultural Policy Creative Nation (1994) and has lectured and
conducted visioning, cultural and planning seminars and workshops with
communities and governments internationally including Italy, Malaysia,
New Zealand, Norway and PNG. This followed executive roles with all
three tiers of Australian government including Manager, Planning, Tourism
NSW, Principal Planner Identity, Parramatta City and the NSW Heritage
Council’s senior historian, policy specialist and advocate. Greg has held
Macquarie University and UWS Research Fellowships and will take up the
award of a Getty Fellowship at the Getty Institute, Los Angeles, USA from
April to July 2014.
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Greg’s leading role in the development and advocacy of culture,
heritage and planning at the state and national level in Australia led to his
award in 1997 of the first NSW Premier’s Max Kelly Scholarship to Venice
to study culture, planning, interpretation and marketing in water cities
globally. Earlier, Greg was the first historian appointed to the NSW
Heritage Council and was the Council’s planning advocate. As a planner
in the 1980s he played a key role in developing the NSW system of
heritage studies, now modelled around Australia. In the early 1990s as
Manager Planning for the NSW Tourism Commission he developed the
first NSW Cultural Tourism Strategy, described by the Commonwealth as
a landmark model for Australia. Later, in his own consultancy, Greg
authored the heritage and planning background for Australia’s first
National Cultural Policy Creative Nation, managed the Commonwealth’s
pioneering Cultural Mapping Consultancy and co-authored the
Commonwealth Cultural Mapping Handbook. In the same period he jointly
prepared the first Port Arthur Historic Site Strategic Management Plan and
the first and noted cultural interpretation of Port Arthur’s penal history and
relationship to Tasmanian society. In the late 1990s as Coordinator of
Historic Heritage for the NSW NPWS he managed multi-disciplinary
heritage conservation, projects and with a growing national reputation he
undertook pioneering Identity Planning for Parramatta City Council,
undertook major consultancies and authored influential policy and
visioning articles.
AWARDS AND MEMBERSHIP
Member Planning Institute of Australia (MPIA)
Getty Scholar, Getty Institute, California, USA, 2014
International Review Panel, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais,
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugual
Former Chair, Sydney Harbour National Park Advisory Committee
NSW Premier’s inaugural Max Kelly Scholar to Venice
Former Australian Nominee International ICOMOS Cultural Tourism
Committee
Member, NSW Premier’s Patrick White House Museum Working Party
Member, NSW Housing Minister's Inter Departmental Committee
Member, Tasmanian Government Restoration Advisory Committee
Selected Publications
Books
Young, G. and Stevenson, D. 2013 The Ashgate Research Companion to
Planning and Culture. Ashgate: London.
Young, G. 2008. Reshaping Planning with Culture. Ashgate: London.
Young, G., Clark, I., and Sutherland, J. 1995. Mapping Culture – A Guide
for Cultural and Economic Development in Communities. AGPS:
Canberra.
Young, G. 1988. Conservation, History and Development. NSW GIS:
Sydney.
Young, G. 1984. Church Conservation and the Heritage Act (NSW). NSW
Dept of Planning: Sydney.
Young G. 1984. Environmental Conservation – Towards a Philosophy.
NSW Heritage Council: Sydney.
Book Chapters
Young, G. 2013. ‘Culture and Planning in a Grain of Sand’, in G. Young
and D. Stevenson (eds), The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning
and Culture. Ashgate: London.
Young, G. 2013. ‘Stealing the Fire of Life: A Cultural Paradigm for
Planning and Governance’, in G. Young & D. Stevenson (eds), The
Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and Culture. Ashgate: London.
Young, G. 2006 ‘Speak Culture! Culture in Planning’s Past, Present and
Future’, in M. Guardia, and J. Monclus, (eds) Culture, Urbanism and
Planning. Ashgate: London.
Young, G. 1996 ‘Cultural Mapping - Capturing Values, Challenging
Silence’, in Assessing Social Values: Communities and Experts.
Australian Heritage Commission: Canberra.
Young, G. 1995 ‘History and Conservation: the Interface’, in Cultural
Conservation – Towards a National Approach, AHC. AGPS: Canberra.
Young, G. 1988 ‘The Effectiveness of Legislative Protection in NSW’, in
The Future of Our Historic Churches. National Trust of Australia, (Vic.):
Melbourne.
Refereed Journal Articles
Young, G. 2008 ‘The Culturisation of Planning’, Planning Theory, 7, 1.
Young, G. 2005 ‘Concepts of Culture in Society and Planning in 20 th to
21st Century Australia and Britain’, Planning History, 27, 1 & 2: 15-19.
Non-Refereed Publications
Young, G. 2000. ‘Behind the Venetians’, Australian Planner, 37, 1.
Young G. 1994. ‘Isle of Gothic Silence’, Island Magazine, Issue 60-61,
Spring/Summer, 31-35.
Young. G. 1991. ‘Authenticity in Cultural Conservation’, Australian
Planner, 29, 1.
Searle, G. & Young, G. 1988,‘Old Buildings, New Money’, Australian
Society, 7, 2: 36-38.