Laurel JOHNSON
PhD candidate
0401 901 065
Chamberlain Building (35), Room 516
Qualifications
- Master of Built Environment (City and Regional Planning)
Experience
- Laurel works is an academic at The University of Queensland in the planning program.
- She is also the Director of Laurel Johnson Planning, a planning consultancy service.
| Featured projects | Duration |
|---|---|
| Missing the Bus: transport disadvantage and social disadvantage in south east Queensland | 2015–2019 |
Publications
Book Chapters
Grant-Smith, Deanna, Edwards, Peter and Johnson, Laurel (2018). Putting children in their place on public transit: managing mobilities in the child-friendly city. Dialogues in urban and regional planning 6: the right to the city. (pp. 201-216) edited by Christopher Silver, Robert Freestone and Christophe Demazière. New York, NY United States: Routledge.
Burton, Paul and Johnson, Laurel (2010). Getting on and getting around : Transport, mobility and disadvantage. A climate for growth. (pp. 220-237) edited by Brendan Gleeson and Wendy Steele. St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: The University of Queensland Press.
Journal Articles
Ye, Chao, Ma, Xiangyi, Gao, Yang and Johnson, Laurel (2020). The lost countryside: spatial production of rural culture in Tangwan village in Shanghai. Habitat International, 98 102137, 102137. doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102137
Gholamhosseini, Roja, Pojani, Dorina, Mateo Babiano, Iderlina, Johnson, Laurel and Minnery, John (2018). The place of public space in the lives of Middle Eastern women migrants in Australia. Journal of Urban Design, 24 (2), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/13574809.2018.1498293
Johnson, Laurel, Roitman, Sonia, Morgan, Ann and MacLeod, Jason (2017). Challenging the productivity mantra: academic writing with spirit in place. Higher Education Research and Development, 36 (6), 1181-1193. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1300140
Pojani, Dorina, Johnson, Laurel, Darchen, Sebastien and Yang, Katie (2016). Learning by doing: employer expectations of planning studio education. Urban Policy and Research, 36 (1), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2016.1221814
Grant-Smith, Deanna, Osborne, Natalie and Johnson, Laurel (2016). Managing the challenges of combining mobilities of care and commuting: an Australian perspective. Community, Work & Family, 20 (2), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/13668803.2016.1202194
Shevellar, Lynda, Johnson, Laurel and Lyons, Kristen (2015). Re-imagining the practices of town, social and community planning in Australia: opportunities for planning in neoliberal policy settings. Australian Planner, 52 (4), 266-276. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2015.1056816
Johnson, Laurel (2015). Fair Shared Cities: the impact of gender planning in Europe. Urban Policy and Research, 33 (3), 378-380. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2015.1057911
Grant-Smith, Deanna and Johnson, Laurel (2012). Mapping local solutions to entrenched transport problems: key lessons regarding the use of geographical information technologies in community mapping with disadvantaged communities. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 52 (3) 3, 1-17. doi: 10.1002/j.1681-4835.2012.tb00368.x
Conference Papers
Johnson, Laurel and Roitman, Sonia (2014). The use of public space as an instrument for social inclusion: the case of Aboriginal and asylum seeker residents in Brisbane, Australia. World Town Planning Day: Equality in the City: Making Cities Socially Cohesive, On line conference, 5-7 November 2014.
Johnson, Laurel and Grant-Smith, Deanna (2012). Out of mind, Out of sight: putting children in their place in urban planning. The Australian Sociological Association Annual Conference (TASA 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 26-29 November 2012.
Johnson, Laurel and Wyeth, Stephanie (2012). More substance than froth: the role of planning in creating a child and youth friendly community. Planning Institute of Australia (Qld) Annual Conference, Cairns, QLD, Australia, 3-5 October 2012. Brisbane, Australia: Planning Institute of Australia, Queensland Division.
Grant-Smith, Deanna, Edwards, Peter and Johnson, Laurel (2012). Providing public transport in the child friendly city: Stockholm vs. South East Queensland. 26th Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP 2012), Ankara, Turkey, 11-15 July 2012. Ankara, Turkey: Association of European Schools of Planning.
Johnson, Laurel (2005). Big roads, no transport-community mapping for transport improvements. 2nd State of Australian Cities Conference (SOAC 2005), Griffith Univ., Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 30 November-2 December 2005. Brisbane (on-line): Grifffith Univ.
Seminar Paper
Johnson, Laurel (2013). Social values in infrastructure planning and delivery. Continuing Professional Development. Planning Institute of Australia (Qld), Planning Institute of Australia.
Research Reports
Walters, Peter, Cheshire, Lynda, Johnson, Laurel and Roitman, Sonia (2014). The many faces of poverty: A month in the life of the Wesley Mission Brisbanes's Emergency Relief Serviece: A report for Wesley Mission Brisbane. St Lucia, QLD Australia: The University of Queensland Housing and Urban Studies Research Network (UQ HAUS).