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Richard Tomlinson

Former Fellow

Term

January 6, 2020 — April 1, 2021

Professional affiliation

Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne;聽Visiting Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Wilson Center Projects

Curating Knowledge of Metropolitan Governance

Knowledge of Metropolitan Governance in a Context of Big Data

Full Biography

Richard Tomlinson is a Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne and Visiting Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Before going to Australia in 2009 he served as an urban policy consultant in Southern Africa and as an academic in South Africa and the USA. His clients included the post-apartheid South African government, The World Bank, USAID, UN HABITAT, NGOs and also the private sector. As an academic he has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and at Columbia University, as a Visiting Scholar at MIT and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. His most recent research and publications concern metropolitan governance, primarily in Australia; global urban policy processes; the effects of the Web on urban knowledge exchange; smart cities; and slum upgrading in Mumbai and Cape Town.

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Richard Tomlinson

Former Fellow;
Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne;聽Visiting Professor, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
鈥淚 have had the good fortune to spend time at four prestigious research institutions. None combined the warmth, helpfulness, and seriousness of purpose as does 澳门六合彩. Then, after Covid-19 isolated me in the USA, 澳门六合彩 did more than could be hoped for in extending my period at the Center and assisting with my visa.鈥

Major Publications

  • Tomlinson R. and M. Spiller (Eds.) 2018. Australia鈥檚 Metropolitan Imperative: An Agenda for Governance Reform, Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.
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  • Tomlinson R., with A. Rizvi, R. Salinas, S. Garry, J. Pehr and F. Rodriguez. 2010. 鈥楾he influence of Google on urban policy in developing countries鈥, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 34, 1, pp. 174-189.
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  • Tomlinson R. 2002. 鈥業nternational best practice, enabling frameworks and the policy process: a South African case study鈥, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 26, 2, pp. 377 鈥 388.