Glen Searle

Honorary Associate Professor in Planning
The University of Sydney

Glen is Honorary Associate Professor in Planning at the University of Sydney. He has previously been Planning Program Director at UQ and UTS. Before academia, he held planning policy positions in the UK Department of the Environment and the NSW Departments of Development, Treasury, and Planning.

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Cities suffer the planning consequences of rapid population growth while the federal government reaps the revenue. Gilad Rom/Flickr, CC BY-NC

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