Steven LiarosStrategic Town Planning and Environmental Law
Areas of expertise
- Strategic town planning
- Environmental law
- Local infrastructure planning
- The political economy of human settlements
Education
- Candidate for PhD in Political Economy (University of Sydney)
- Masters in Environmental Law (University of Sydney, 2011)
- Graduate Diploma in Planning (University of Technology, Sydney, 1999)
- Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering (University of Sydney, 1988)
Steven has expertise in strategic town planning, environmental law, local infrastructure planning and the political economy of human settlements. He has written extensively on the future of cities, including on how they are being reshaped by distributed information and energy systems. He is co-creating a new model for village-scale, regenerative land development based on the principles of the Circular Economy and the Steady State Economy.
More info at: Beautility Developments and Narratives4Change
Global mega-trends are converging to reshape the pattern of human settlements. Technological changes, Economic disruptions, Environmental degradation and sociopolitical dysfunction all point to the need to re-imagine how we live together on the land. The future is distributed, regenerative, circular, holistic and accessible to all.
Publications
- Book: Rethinking the City (2014)
- Peer reviewed journal article: Liaros, S. (2019) ’Implementing a new human settlement
theory: Strategic planning for a network of regenerative villages’, Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, Vol. 9 No. 3, pp. 258-271. (contact us for a copy) - Ecoliving Journeys: Stories from an Emerging Future (on Medium)