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