Professor Kim Dovey

Biography

Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub  Infur–. His research on social issues in architecture and urban design has included investigations of urban place identity, creative clusters, transit-oriented urban design and the morphology of informal settlements. Books include 'Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form' (1999/2008),  'Fluid City' (2005), 'Becoming Places' (2010) and Urban Design Thinking (2016).

Selected publications

• Dovey, K., Adams, R. & Jones, R. (eds) (2018) Urban Choreography: Emerging Melbourne 1985–, Melbourne: MUP.
• Dovey, K., Pafka, E. & Ristic, M. (eds) (2018) Mapping Urbanities, New York: Routledge.
• Pafka, E., Dovey, K. & Aschwanden, G. (2018 in press) ‘Limits of Space Syntax for Urban Design’ Environment & Planning B.
• Rau, F. Dovey, K. & Pafka, E. (2017) 'Towards a Genealogy of Urban Shopping', Journal of Urban Design.
• Dovey, K., Woodcock, I. & Pike, L. (2017) 'Isochrone Mapping of Urban Transport', Planning Practice & Research, 32(4): 402-416.
• Dovey, K. Rao, F. & Pafka, E. (2017) 'Agglomeration and Assemblage', Urban Studies, 55(2) 263–273.
• Dovey, K. & Pafka, E. (2017) 'What is Functional Mix?', Planning Theory & Practice, 18 (2): 249–267.
• Dovey, K.  Pike, L. & Woodcock, I. (2017) 'Incremental Urban Intensification', Urban Policy and Research, 35 (3): 261–274.
• Dovey, K. (2016) 'On Learning Urban Design', Journal of Urban Design, 21 (5), 555–557.
• Pafka, E. & Dovey, K. (2017) ‘Permeability and Interface Catchment: Measuring and Mapping Walkability’, Journal of Urbanism, 10(2): 150-162, DOI: 10.1080/17549175.2016.1220413
• Dovey, K. & Ristic, M. (2017) 'Mapping Urban Assemblages: The Production of Spatial Knowledge', Journal of Urbanism, 10(1) 15-28.
• Dovey, K. & Pafka, E. (2016) 'The Science of Urban Design?' Urban Design International, 21 (1) 1-10.
• Wood, S. & Dovey, K. (2015) ‘Creative Multiplicities: Urban Morphologies of Creative Clustering’ Journal of Urban Design, 20 (1), 52–74.
• Dovey, K. & Wood, S. (2015) ‘Public/Private Urban Interfaces’ Journal of Urbanism, 8 (1) 1-16.
• Dovey, K. & Fisher, K. (2014) ‘Designing for Adaptation: The School as Socio-Spatial Assemblage’, Journal of Architecture, 19 (10) 43-63.
• Dovey, K. & Pafka, E. (2014) ‘The Urban Density Assemblage’, Urban Design International. 19 (1) 66-76.
• Owen, C., Dovey, K. & Raharjo, W. (2013) ‘Teaching Informal Urbanism: Simulating Informal Settlement Practices in the Design Studio’, Journal of Architectural Education, 67 (2)  214-223
• Dovey, K. (2012) ‘Informal Settlement and Complex Adaptive Assemblage’, International Development Planning Review, 34 (3) 371-90.
• Dovey, K. & King, R. (2012) ‘Informal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums’, Tourism Geographies, 14 (2) 275-93.
• Dovey, K., Wollan, S. & Woodcock, I. (2012) ‘Placing Graffiti’ Journal of Urban Design, 17 (1): 21-41.
• Dovey, K. (2011) ‘Uprooting Critical Urbanism’, City, 15 (3/4), 347-54.
• Dovey, K. & King, R. (2011) ‘Forms of Informality: Morphology and Visibility of Informal Settlements’, Built Environment 37 (1), pp.11-29.

Featured projects

• Intensifying Places: Transit-oriented Urban Design for Resilient Australian Cities
• Transit for All: Better Stations and Access Infrastructure