Dr Stephen Wood
Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BTP (Hons) UNSW, PhD Melbourne
Contact
| Email: | stephen.wood@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Earth Sciences (C2) 324 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2804 (or +61 2 6773 2804 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3030 |
Stephen Wood was awarded a PhD in 2004 for his thesis ‘Desiring Docklands: Deleuze and urban planning discourse’. He was then engaged in a research project at the University of Melbourne entitled ‘What is Urban Character? Defining, constructing and regulating urban place identity.’ Stephen has worked as a planner at both state and local levels in New South Wales and Victoria. He joined UNE in 2007 and currently teaches in transport planning and urban design & architecture.
His research interests relate to planning theory, urban design, urban character, and theories of place & space.
Areas of Teaching
GEPL350/450 – Access & Mobility
GEPL302/402 – Architecture & Urban Design
GEPL121 – The World of Planning: An Introduction
Research interests
- Planning theory
- Urban design
- Urban character
- Theories of place and space
Publications
Dovey, K., Wood, S. & Woodcock, I. (2008) 'Sense of Urban Character', in: Vanclay, F. & Malpas, J. (eds) Making Sense of 'Place', Canberra: National Museum of Australia (in press).
Dovey, K., Wood, S. and Woodcock, I. (2007) ‘Jazz Grates: Density and the inner city’, Density Inside Out conference, School of Architecture, University of Edinburgh.
Wood, S., Woodcock, I. & Dovey, K. (2006) 'Contesting Characters at Hedgeley Dene', in Basson, S. (ed) Contested Terrains, SAHANZ Proceedings, Perth.
Dovey, K., Wood, S. & Woodcock, I (2006) 'What is Urban Character?’, in: State of Australian Cities, Conference Proceedings, Griffith University, Brisbane, web publication: www.griffith.edu.au/conference/soac2005/content_publishedpapers.html
Woodcock, I., Dovey, K. and Wood, S. (2006) ‘Our Home is Girt by Sea: Local/National characters’, Nation City, Place: Rethinking Nationalism conference, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne.
Dovey, K., Woodcock, I. & Wood, S. (2006) 'Contradictory Characters', in: Anderson, K. et al. (eds) After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney, Conference Proceedings, Centre for Cultural research, University of Western Sydney, 2006. Website Publication: www.uws.edu.au/research/researchcentres/ccr/publications#5
Wood, S. (2005) ‘Refacing the City: The Melbourne Docklands’ in: Long, C., Shaw, K. & Merlo, C. (eds) Suburban Fantasies: Melbourne Unmasked, Kew, Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, pp. 50-67.
Wood, S. & Dovey, K. (2005) ‘Constructing Desires’ in: Dovey, K. Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 207-215.
Woodcock, I., Dovey, K. & Wood, S. (2004) 'Limits to Urban Character', in Edquist, H. & Frichot, H. (Eds) LIMITS: SAHANZ Proceedings, Vol 2, Melbourne, pp.545-550.