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New Methods for Social Value
Read Dr James Lesh's review of Assessing the Social Values of Heritage: Methods in Theory and Practice by Elizabeth Robson.
Jan 165 min read
Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia: Book Review
James Lesh reviews Cities in a Sunburnt Country for the Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire urbaine.
Jul 25, 20235 min read
Giving Value to Architecture and Heritage: Book Review
James Lesh reviews 'Valuing Architecture: Heritage and the Economics of Culture'.
May 5, 20235 min read
Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody lead two volumes on a Baroque Archbishop who shaped Melbourne’s colonial life: Book Review
James Lesh reviews 'The Invention of Melbourne' and 'The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold'
Nov 17, 20225 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
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
A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne: Exhibition Review
James Lesh reviews the exhibition 'A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne', presented at the City of Melbourne Gallery.
Apr 14, 20175 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
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