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Clive Forster
Head of School
Associate Professor in Geography
Cities as Human Environments; Urban Policy; Computing Applications in Geography.
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Contact Details
- Office: Room 322 Social Sciences North
- Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University,
GPO Box 2100,Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
- Email: Clive.Forster@flinders.edu.au
- Phone: (08) 8201 2308 (in Australia);
(618) 8201 2308 (outside Australia)
- Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia);
(618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)
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Qualifications
BSc, PhD (Hull)
Positions Held
- Head of School
- Member of Social Sciences Faculty Board
Current Teaching
Research Areas
- Employment, labour force participation and the journey to
work in Australian cities.
- Polarisation and disadvantage in Australian cities.
- Urban policy.
Consultancy Capabilities
- Consultant to Commonwealth, State and Local Government bodies on urban policy
issues, particularly those related to disadvantage and spatial inequality.
Experience includes the following:
- 1990-1: Consultant to the South Australian Planning Review on the identification
of areas of disadvantage within metropolitan Adelaide.
- 1996: Consultant to the Commonwealth Department of Housing and Urban Development
to produce (with Beer, A.P.) The Australian National Overview of Areas
of Social and Economic Disadvantage in Australian Cities, for submission
to the OECD Project Group on Distressed Urban Areas.
- 1999-2000:Consultant to the South Australian Department of Human Services
on the incidence of social disadvantage in Adelaide's outer southern suburbs.
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2000: Consultant to the City of Playford on processes and patterns
of socio-economic change within the City, 1991-96
Current and Recent Scholarly Activities
- Analysis of the policy implications of changing patterns of residential
differentiation in Australian cities between 1991 and 2001, in relation to
current debates about economic restructuring, demographic change, changes
in housing markets and issues of social exclusion and social capital.
Selected Publications
- 1994: Locational disadvantage, outer suburbia and urban myths, Urban
Policy and Research 12, pp.197-199.
- 1996: (with Glover, J., Shand, M. and Woolacott, T.) A Social Health
Atlas of South Australia, Second Edition, South Australian Health Commission,
Adelaide.
- 1997: ‘Adelaide’, in Stimson, R.J., O’Connor, K.B. and Taylor
S.P. (eds) Five Cities: Patterns of Employment and Labour Force Characteristics
in Australia’s Metropolitan Cities, Australian Housing and Urban
Research Institute, Melbourne, pp. 307-378.
- 1997: ‘A new era for the inner city? Introduction to the debate’,
Urban Policy and Research, 15, pp. 137-139.
- 1999: Australian Cities: Continuity and Change, second edition, Oxford
University Press, Sydney.
- 1999: 'Sustainability and the journey to work' in Houses and Jobs in Cities
and Regions: Research in Honour of Chris Maher, ed. K. O'Connor, University
of Queensland Press, Brisbane, pp. 213-22.
- 2000: Detailed Analysis of Socio-Economic Change in Eight Selected Suburbs,
City of Playford 1991-96. Report prepared for the City of Playford as an appendix
to Chapter 4 of the City's Social Strategy, August 2000, 84 p.
- 2002: (With Beer, A.P.) 'Global restructuring, the welfare state and urban
programmes: federal policies and inequality within Australian cities', European
Planning Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 7-25.
- 2002: (With Harvey, N.and Bourman, R.) 'Geography and environmental studies
in Australia: symbiosis for survival in the 21st century', Australian Geographical
Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 21-32.
- 2004: (With Harvey, N.) 'Geography in South Australian Universities: future
prospects', South Australian Geographical Journal, vol. 102, pp.
118-127.
- 2004: Australian Cities: Continuity and Change, third edition,
Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
- 2006: 'The challenge of change: Australian cities and urban planning in
the new millennium', Geographical Research, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 174-183.
- 2007: Chapter Seven: A Postscript in With Conscious Purpose: A History
of Town Planning in South Australia, ed. A. Hutchings, Planning Institute
of Australia (SA Division), Adelaide.
- 2007: (Book Review) Living Cities: An Urban Myth? Government and Sustainability
in Australia, ed. G. Smith and J. Scott, Journal of Regional Science,
vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 10281030.
- 2007: Invited Comment: Twenty-Five Years of Urban Policy and
Research, 1982-2006, Urban Policy and Research, vol. 25, no.
4, pp. 391-399.
Updated 22/1/07
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