This is an overview of my academic publications, including evaluation reports. Please contact me if you have any questions or are interested in reading more.
Journal articles and book chapters
2023: Journal article: with K Antlej, S Cooke, M Kelly, R Kennedy, B Horan, “Understanding the Social Value of Geelong’s Design and Manufacturing Heritage for Extended Reality“, Heritage 6 (3): 3043-3062. Open access.
2022: Journal article: with Hannah Lewi, “The Making of Canberra as Captured on Film (1900-1945)”, Planning Perspectives 37 (4): 795-814.
2021: Roundtable article: with André Brett, “Trove, disability, and researching history: or, digital materialism for precarious times,” History Australia 18 (4), 855-856.
2021: Book chapter: “Different by Design”, in Neue Städte: Vom Projekt der Moderne zur Authentisierung [New cities: From the Modern Project to Authentication]; ed. Andreas Ludwig, Wallstein Verlag. [Free to read author-accepted pre-publication version here.]
2018: Guest editor, journal special issue: with Elizabeth J. Taylor, “Sites of consumption on the fringes of urban heritage,” Historic Environment, 30 (2): 1-9.
2018: Journal article: “‘We’re full’: Capacity, finitude, and British landscapes, 1945-1979,” Australian Journal of Politics and History, 64(3): 450-463. [Free to read author-accepted pre-publication version here.]
2017: Journal article: “You’ve never seen anything like it”: multiplexes, shopping malls and sensory overwhelm in Milton Keynes, 1979-1986,” Senses and Society, 12(2):147-161. [Free to read author-accepted pre-publication version here.]
2017: Book chapter: with Evan Smith, “‘Thatcher’s Bloody Britain!’: Unemployment and Gender in Neoliberal Britain in The Young Ones and Men Behaving Badly,” in Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture, eds. Helen Davies, Claire O’Callaghan. I.B. Tauris.
2015: Journal article: “Milton Keynes and the Liquid Landscape,” Landscape Review, 16 (1): 36-45.
Reports and Reviews
2022-2023: Evaluation reports co-authored for the Community Based Research Program funded by Melbourne Disability Institute and Melbourne School of Graduate Research, University of Melbourne.
2019: Policy report: with Ralph Horne and Elizabeth J. Taylor, ‘Balancing Victoria: Prospects for Decentralisation’ for Balance Victoria.
2019: “Urban histories of the nation and beyond in Australia and New Zealand,” History Australia, 16 (2): 417-419. (paywalled)
2019: Lauren Pikó, James Lesh, Victoria Kolankiewicz, “Remaking cities: the fourteenth Australasian Urban History / Planning History Conference, Melbourne, 2018,” Planning Perspectives. (paywalled).
Monograph
2019: Lauren Pikó, Milton Keynes in British Culture: Imagining England, Routledge, 2019.
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Thesis
2017: Doctorate of Philosophy. Lauren Anne Piko, “Mirroring England? Milton Keynes, decline and the English landscape 1967-1992,” University of Melbourne. PhD awarded 10 April 2018. Open access.
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