Catherine Murphy

Senior Lecturer, Urban Planning and Design, Department of Architecture, Monash University Catherine.Murphy@monash.edu

Biography

Catherine Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Monash, where she teaches in the new Master of Urban Planning and Design. She is currently doing her PhD on integrated design and planning processes that foreground water as a driver of urban form. She has worked as a program manager, curator and writer/editor, and started her work life in book publishing.

articles

How to give natural systems the space to recover from the cities built over them

Cities are starting to restore natural systems such as waterways, wetlands and bushland. But restoration on the scale these systems need to function properly calls for a rethink of urban planning.

Architecture