Steve Hamnett
Steve Hamnett is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of South Australia and a Commissioner of the Environment, Resources and Development Court. Steve was Head of the planning program at the University of South Australia from 1984 until mid-2007. He has at various times, made a number of significant contributions to PIA including, among other things, as President of the SA Division, National Vice-President, Chair of the Planning Education Foundation, Editor of Australian Planner, Program Convenor for the 2003 Adelaide Planning Congress and, most recently, a member of the Steering Committee of the National Inquiry Into Planning Education and Employment. Steve remains a member of PIA’s National Education Committee. He has also made broader contributions to the development of planning in South Australia including, notably, his role as a member of the three-person Steering Committee of the Planning Review between 1990 and 1992 and as Deputy Presiding Member of the Development Assessment Commission. Nationally, Steve was a member in 1994-95 of the evaluation committee for the Commonwealth Better Cities Project. Over the past 15 or so years, Steve has worked extensively in Asia both as an academic and for AusAID on projects intended to build local government planning capacity in Indonesia, The Philippines, China, Malaysia, Fiji, Nauru and elsewhere. In 2000, with Robert Freestone, he co-wrote and edited ‘The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History’ which won the PIA National Award for Scholarship. Steve was elevated to a Life Fellowship of PIA in 2004 for outstanding contributions to planning and planning education.
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