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This collection of essays highlights current debates for cities undergoing urban renewal, focussing on regional cities as places that lead change. Like many regional cities, Geelong is grappling with the legacy of its industrial architectural heritage and identity. This in-depth study of the city of Geelong examines theories and realities - from the speculative to the mundane – critical to change pre-empted by deindustrialisation. While this book argues that architecture and the built environment are key to urban renewal, an intersectional perspective on Geelong as a place raises contested pasts and territories. This brings attention to the dispossession of First Nations people by British colonisers, as well as the exploitation of immigrant communities in industrial production. Informed by positions on design futures, decolonising and cultural urbanisms, adaptive re-use and the post-industrial city, the chapters in this book expand an interdisciplinary field relevant to scholars and practitioners in heritage and conservation, urban design, community engagement and place-making more generally.

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Mirjana Lozanovska is Professor in Architecture and Director of the Architecture Vacancy Lab at Deakin University, Australia. Her books include Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (2019), Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration (2016), and Iconic Industry: Exploring the industrial fabric of Geelong (2017). Mirjana's current research interest is the industrial site of the Port Kembla steelworks examined through a lens of immigrant labour. Ursula de Jong is Honorary Associate Professor and Honorary Fellow in the Architecture Vacancy Lab and Research Associate of the HOME research centre, both at Deakin University, Australia. Her books include the co-edited volume Barwon Park: People and Place (2023); the co-authored Fit for Sacred Use – Stewardship and renewal of places of worship (2018) and William Wardell and Genazzano FCJ College (2009). Ursula's research interests include place, heritage and architectural history.

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