James Lesh

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📢 Out now on #FirstView and #OpenAccess 🔓 James Lesh, '‘Differences within a range of similarity’: mapping Australian urban history' 🔗 bit.ly/44Oq46z #UrbanHistory

YIMBYs and NIMBYs agree on one thing – they both want to live in desirable heritage neighbourhoods. Despite heritage being blamed for lack of new housing in these areas, according to @jameslesh (@Deakin) it’s not the real issue. #Echobox=1691158288" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theconversation.com/yimbys-and-nim…

Really pleased to see the paperback edition of our book is now out. This edited collection introduces a number of people-centred methodologies that can help us to better capture and understand our attachments to historic urban places tinyurl.com/4tp56shm

@Arch_Historian @speechleyish @MacarenaDLVDL You did a brilliant job, @Arch_Historian !

@speechleyish @MacarenaDLVDL @jameslesh We couldn’t have done it without the help of so many people - including you @speechleyish !

Great to hear @jameslesh talk about his research on Parkville’s place in Melbourne’s early heritage movement at today’s Park Life Symposium at ACAHUCH.

Thanks everyone for the great turnout and fab event! Surreal for a 10-year project to reach its conclusion. Call or email the @BoydFoundation to pre-order the hardback at half price.

@felixexplody @BoydFoundation @NTAV Thanks Felicity!! You’ve been an incredible support.

So excited to be at @BoydFoundation the launch of @jameslesh’s book “Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia”. James has been working on this for about as long as I’ve been at @NTAV, which is a pretty long time. Congratulations James!!!

A great piece in the @ConversationEDU by CHRG Member @jameslesh looking at urban heritage. #twitterstorians

Our urban heritage should be allowed to evolve and adapt to the values and needs of today. It’s the best way to avoid neglect and decay, while enabling this heritage to help make cities sustainable, argues @jameslesh. @Deakin bit.ly/3TaVGho

A great article today by our colleague James Lesh @jameslesh in The Conversation @ConversationEDU @PHAVicTas @ProfHistAus #urbanheritage James notes that 'the very idea of 'historic heritage' is out-of-date.' theconversation.com/frozen-in-time…

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I write in @ConversationEDU about the need for an agenda towards integrating #sustainability and #urbanheritage. #SOE22 theconversation.com/frozen-in-time…