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What is Social Value?
Social value was codified as a heritage value in Australia earlier than in many other contexts. This article explores how this happened.
Nov 11, 20191 min read
City Life: The New Urban Australia: Seamus O’Hanlon: Book Review
James Lesh reviews City Life: The New Urban Australia by Seamus O’Hanlon: Book Review.
Aug 9, 20193 min read
Forty years of the Burra Charter and Australia’s heritage vision
As the Burra Charter turns 40, James Lesh looks back at the global influence of its innovative approach to heritage.
Jul 14, 20195 min read
Cremorne Pleasure Gardens in Melbourne, Australia
James Lesh studies the top leisure attraction in early colonial Melbourne.
Feb 12, 20191 min read
City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia: Graeme Davison: Book Review
James Lesh reflects on the career of historian Graeme Davison in his review of City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia.
Nov 16, 20184 min read
Rainbow Jews and LGBTQ Heritage in the UK and London
James Lesh contributed to a major project exploring Jewish LGBTQ heritage in the United Kingdom, particularly London.
Feb 11, 20181 min read
Preserving cities: how 'trendies' shaped Australia' urban heritage
In the 1960s-70s, the so-called 'trendies' changed how we think about inner suburban Australian heritage.
Nov 4, 20164 min read
Sketching the National Trust of Victoria at 60 years
An exploration of 60 Years of the National Trust in Victoria.
Oct 18, 20168 min read
Brisbane and Gold Coast urban heritage in the early 1970s (and today)
James Lesh explores community heritage voices in Queensland in the 1970s.
Oct 5, 20164 min read
What is Urban History?: Shane Ewen: Book Review
James Lesh positively reviews the new survey text of urban history by Shane Ewen.
Sep 20, 20164 min read
Rialto Towers and the future of Melbourne, 1970s-80s
The 1980s Rialto Towers was a game-changer for skyscrapers, development and heritage in Melbourne.
Mar 11, 20161 min read
Larry La Trobe: The Dog Statue That Has Defined Melbourne
Larry La Trobe, explains James Lesh, has shaped Melbourne's urban imagination since the 1990s.
Feb 1, 20161 min read
Regenerating heritage at Melbourne's Rialto Towers
The Rialto precinct in Melbourne is undergoing another facelift in the coming months.
Jul 10, 20153 min read
Cremorne's subdivision in 1885
James Lesh examines the Cremorne Broadsheet, an 1885 land sale map, as an artefact of material culture.
Mar 11, 20151 min read
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