Writing

This is a very partial list of my published writing.

Books

The Victorian Planning System: Practice, Problems, and Prospects. First Edition. Sydney: Federation Press, 2017. (See here.)

Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. (See here.)

Journal Articles

“Planning vs Planning Law: Reconciling Planning Policy and Case Law in the Victorian Planning System.” Environmental and Planning Law Journal 37, no. 3 (May 2020): 383–402.

“Buffeted by Culture: Urban Planners, Notional Places, and Narratives of Fakery.” Planning Theory & Practice 19, no. 4 (November 6, 2017): 633–38.

“Life Reproduced in Drawings: Preliminary Comments Upon Realism in Animation,” Animation Journal 13 (2005): 65-85. (A version of that article is here.)

Conference Papers

Taylor, Elizabeth, and Stephen Rowley. “Written in Pencil or in Ink: Private Covenants and Their Legacies for Housing and Planning in Victoria.” In Proceedings of the State of Australian Cities Conference. Adelaide, 2017. (Here.)

Rowley, Stephen, and Joe Hurley. “Impact of Monetary Costs on Citizen Appeals of Planning Decisions.” Gold Coast: State of Australian Cities Research Network, 2015. (Online here).

Book Chapter

“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. (Amazon Link; JSTOR).

Submissions to Industry Reviews

The following are submissions to industry reviews and consultation that I have archived (usually with various further edits) on the site.

• Smart Planning (2017): These were comments provided privately to DELWP (if I recall correctly!) but then very heavily edited and posted as “Smarter Planning.”
• VicSmart Review (2013): Archived as “The Wrong Idea Not Implemented Properly (Submission on VicSmart).”
• Review of Victorian Zones (2012): Archived as “Begging for Reason: My Submission  to the Victorian Zone Review.” (Wow, looking back I was not messing around when I titled that post!)
• Underwood Review (2011): Archived as “Fixing the Victorian Planning System: Six Key Issues.”
• Planning and Environment Act Review (2009): Archived as “Fixing the Planning & Environment Act.“

Industry Publications and Magazines

Most of these pieces were reposted on this site (the exception generally being co-authored articles) so in such cases I have provided a link to the online version.

• “Victorian Planning: Re-Thinking the Model.” VPELA Revue, October 2019, 41–43. (Online here.)
• Rowley, Stephen, and Elizabeth Taylor. “Pencil or Ink?: How Covenants Trump the Public Interest.” Planning News 44, no. 1 (February 2018): 24. (This is a shorter piece summarising the findings of our SOAC paper.)
• Taylor, Elizabeth, and Stephen Rowley. “Minimum Car Parking Standards: A Discredited Tool?” Planning News 42, no. 1 (February 2016): 10.
• Rowley, Stephen. “It’s Not so Hard: Ten Simple Planning System Fixes.” Planning News 41, no. 1 (February 2015): 14–15. (Online here.)
• “The Residential Zones: The Non-Hysterical Case for Concern.” Planning News 40, no. 4 (May 2014): 14–15. (Online here.)
• “Breaking the Land Speed Record in an Engineless Car: The Challenge of VicSmart.” Planning News 39, no. 7 (August 2013): 18–19. (Online here.)
• “Fifty Years of Ugliness.” Planning News 37, no. 7 (August 2011): 27–28. (Online here.)
  “Seeing Seaside.” Planning News 36, no. 9 (October 2010): 19–20, 29. (Online here.)
• “Job Opportunities in the Virtual City: Planners and SimCity.” 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.)
• “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.)

Newspaper and Website Opinion Pieces

Rowley, Stephen. “Overnight, Melbourne’s Backyards Have Become an Endangered Species.” The Age, March 14, 2017. (Online here – note the title of this piece was not mine and I always felt misrepresented my concerns!)

Rowley, Stephen. “Minister’s Zone Chaos Made Manifest.” The Age, October 6, 2012. (Online here.)

Rowley, Stephen. “Bonanza for Big-Box Retail at the Expense of Transparency.” Crikey, January 24, 2012. (Online here.)

Rowley, Stephen. “The Perils of Going Beyond the Information Drip Feed.” Crikey, January 19, 2011. (Online here.)

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.

• 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.

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