Ned grew up in Sydney and later the Tweed Valley and left for the United States
after graduating from High School where he continued his tertiary education and lengthy
professional career. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, Ned
worked in the City of Oakland as statutory City Planner and then later in San Francisco
with the Sassaki Urban Design Group on large design projects such as Euro-Disney and the
City of San Francisco downtown redevelopment. While studying at Cornell University, Ned
continued his design research in master planning communities in New York City. 

Later Ned moved to Los Angeles where he played a lead role in the urban design of the
Sunset Boulevard Specific Plan and Santa Monica Boulevard Streetscape Master Plan. In the
mid 1990's Ned continued his professional career with Wallace Roberts & Todd in
San Diego working on the Mission Bay Master Plan, the City of Carlsbad Master Plan and
the City of Tucson Air Quality Master Plan. In the mid 1990's Ned was elected to
public office, serving a four year term as trustee of the Petaluma Health Care District. 

On returning to Australia he accepted a teaching role at QUT in Brisbane and began his
PhD research evaluating the success of sustainable development practices in Master
Planned Communities. Later, Ned joined Gold Coast City Council working in the Urban
Design unit and then coordinating the Environmental Planning and Conservation Unit.

Books

SonomaWORKS a community health and welfare program evaluation: Moving people from welfare dependence to employment and independence, SonomaWORKS a community health and welfare program evaluation: Moving people from welfare dependance to employment and independance (2009)

SonomaWORKS was a ‘welfare to work’ program that was evaluated through grant funding from the...

 

Book Chapters

Barriers to sustainable suburbs (with Elspeth Mead), Sustainable development and planning II (2005)

Under the rapid technological advancement within the building industry and booming economic conditions regionally it...

 

Conference Papers

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Achieving sustainable designs within master planned communities (with Elspeth Mead), State of Australian cities national conference 2005 (2005)

Under rapid technological advancement within the urban development industry, fuelled by booming economic conditions, a...

 

Sustainable economies in master planned communities, CIB 2003 international conference on smart and sustainable built environment (2003)

The intent of this paper is to discuss the principles for forming industrial ecologies in...

 

Information and communication technology and the part urban planners can play, PIA Queensland conference 2002: Now with Zen: Planning with an enlightened community (2002)

Extract:

At the beginning of the new millennium, information and communications technologies (ICT’s) are...