• 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

Book Reviews

Even more than my film reviews, these book reviews are very often broader essays using the book as a jumping off point.

The Animated Man (Michael Barrier, University of California Press, 2007)

The Australian Ugliness (Robin Boyd, Text, 1960/2010)

Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer (Tom Shone, Simon & Shuster, 2004)

Citizen Spielberg (Lester D. Friedman, University of Illinois Press, 2006)

Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg (Andrew M. Gordon, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)

The Jaws Log: 25th Anniversary Edition (Carl Gottlieb, Newmarket Press, 1975/2001)

Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noel Carroll, Columbia University Press, 1988)

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