• Planning for Melbourne's Future (60 Years On)
  • 3.14159 out of 4
  • Seeing Seaside
  • Walt Disney, Urban Designer
  • The Classic Hollywood Town at the Dawn of Suburbia
  • Fifty Years of Ugliness
  • Job Opportunities in the Virtual City: Planners and SimCity
  • The Victorian Planning History Collection

Published Writing

Academic Writing

  • “False LA: Blade Runner and the Future City,” in The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science Fiction Classic, ed. Will Brooker (London & New York: Wallflower Press, 2005), 203-212.
  • “Life Reproduced in Drawings: Preliminary Comments Upon Realism in Animation,” Animation Journal 13 (2005): 65-85. A version of that article is here.

See also online journals, below.

Online Journals

Newspapers and Magazines

  • “Minister’s Zone Chaos Made Manifest.” The Age, October 6, 2012. (Online here).
  • “Fifty Years of Ugliness.” Planning News 37, no. 7 (August 2011): 27-28. (Online here).
  • “The Doctor Will See You Now!” Double-0-Seven Magazine Archive Files, no. 1 (May 2011): 4-17. (Online here).
  • “The Virtual City,” Planning News 36, no. 4 (May 2010): 8-10. (Online here).
  • “Meeting Half Way: A Collaborative Approach to Permit Assessments,” Planning News 35, no. 3 (April 2009): 14-15. (Online here).
  • “Crazy Shatner Wields His Big Schtick.” The Age, June 12, 2008, Green Guide. (Online here).
  • “The Auditor General’s Report: Beyond the Headlines,” Planning News 34, no. 5 (June 2008): 10-11. (Online here).
  • “Second Thoughts About Secondary Consent,” Planning News 34, no. 2 (March 2008), 12-13. (Online here).
  • “Star Wars Plays to a Post 9/11 Audience.” The Age, June 7, 2005, Opinion. (Longer version online here).

Websites

  • “Bonanza for Big-Box Retail at the Expense of Transparency.” Crikey, January 24, 2012. (Direct Link).
  • “The Perils of Going Beyond the Information Drip Feed.” Crikey, January 19, 2011. (Direct link).
  • “‘This Never Happened to the Other Fellow:’ Bond, Vesper, & Tracy.” CommanderBond.Net, December 10, 2006. (Direct Link).
  • Regular contributor to In Film Australia, 2005-2007.

See also Cinephobia, below.

Planning News Editorials

Planning News is the official magazine of the Planning Institute of Australia, Victorian Division, and is Australia’s only monthly publication dedicated to urban planning. I was co-editor from July 2007 to December 2010, with Tim Westcott and Gilda Di Vincenzo.

The following list includes editorials (and a handfull of other pieces co-written with the other editors) where I was the primary or sole author, but omits such articles when one of my co-editors was the primary author. See here for the issues I edited, including cover images.

My individual contributions are listed above, under “Magazines.”

My Planning News contributions are mostly archived on this site, viewable here.

  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda Di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “The Harshest Lesson,” Planning News 36, No. 8 (September 2010): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda Di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “Transforming One VCAT,” Planning News 36, no. 5 (June 2010): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “Sham Sandwich,” Planning News 36, no. 3 (April 2010): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda Di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “Climate Change, Sustainability, and… (Falls Asleep).,” Planning News 35, no. 8 (September 2009): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “The Lawyers’ Tribunal,” Planning News 35, no. 5 (June 2009): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “Driving with the Handbrake On,” Planning News 35, no. 2 (March 2009): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “Us, Them, and Reform,” Planning News 34, no. 10 (November 2008): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “The New Naivety,” Planning News 34, no. 9 (October 2008): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “The Melbourne 2030 Audit and the Urgency of Debate,” Planning News 34, no. 6 (July 2008): 4. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “Now is the Time,” Planning News 34, no. 3 (April 2008): 4.
  • Stephen Rowley, Timothy Westcott, and Gilda di Vincenzo, “Building a Better System,” Planning News 34, no. 3 (April 2008): 8-13. (Online here).
  • Stephen Rowley, Gilda di Vincenzo, and Timothy Westcott, “When ‘Okay’ Isn’t Okay,” Planning News 33, no. 11 (December 2007), 4.

Clause 101

Clause 101 was a humour column published in Planning News. My contributions can be seen collated here.

  • “Government Announces White Elephant Breeding Program,” Planning News 36, no. 2 (March 2010): 30.
  • “Opposition Proposes Mandatory Height Limits for Planning Ministers,” Planning News 35, no. 6 (July 2009): 30.
  • “Camberwell Residents Unveil Bold Vision of Status Quo; Senior Industry Figure Fondly Recalls Time in Local Government, Moon Landing,” Planning News 35, no. 4 (May 2009): 30.
  • “Renegade Planner Lives on the Edge,” Planning News 34, no. 7 (August 2008): 30.
  • “Car Parking Controls Given Heritage Listing,” Planning News 30, no. 4 (May 2008): 30.
  • “The Planning Nerd Christmas Gift Guide,” Planning News 34, no. 11 (December 2008): 30.
  • “New Tunnel to Link Eastern Freeway with Kingdom of Mole Men,” Planning News 34, no. 2 (March 2008).
  • “New Home Showcases Innovative Alternatives to Good Design,” Planning News 33, no. 11 (December 2007), 30.

Cinephobia and Sterow

I have written general movie commentary, reviews, retrospectives and the like for my own websites since 1997. Cinephobia was a film related website, which I maintained from 1997 until 2010, when I shifted its content to www.sterow.com, which covers film, urban planning, and other topics.

Zotero

My Zotero profile is here.

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