1. Planning for Country.- 2. Designing with Country.- 3. Aboriginal Heritage and Place.- 4. Speaking Djilang: Past Present Future.- 5. Saving Mt Anakie / Anakie Youang.- 6. The Djilang Incubator.- 7. Geelong Arts Centre Project.- 8. Barwon Heads Road Duplication Project.- 9. Coriayo Submerged Landscape.- 10. Avalon Corridor.- 11. Armstrong Creek Library.- 12. Distinctive Area & Landscapes.- 13. Conclusion: Envisaging a First Nations Cityscape.

‘What should true community engagement look like? We know it needs to involve a cooperative approach that leads to an outcome that reflects the values of the parties involved. This challenge becomes particularly pertinent when the values in question are those of First Nations Peoples. David Jones’ timely book demonstrates alternative ways to engage First Nations Peoples, specifically Traditional Owners, in conventional planning and design processes. It offers a way forward based on the solid foundations of long held and tested First Nations’ cultural values. This ground-breaking book should be a bible for all professionals who have, are, or intend to, work in the landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, construction, and planning fields. It is also a “must read” for all the decision makers responsible for our urban environments.’

— Emeritus Professor Darryl Low Choy, School of Environment & Science, Griffith University, Australia

Planning for Urban Country addresses a major gap in knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into Australia’s built environment contexts. How do you ‘heal’ Country if it has been devastated by concrete and bitumen, excavations and bulldozing, weeds and introduced plants and animals, and surface, aerial and underground contaminants? How then do Aboriginal values and Country Plan aspirations address urban environments? In this book, David Jones explores the major First Nations-informed design and planning transformations in Djilang / Greater Geelong since 2020. Included are short-interlinked essays about the political and cultural context, profiles of key exemplar architectural, landscape and corridor projects, a deep explanation of the legislative, policy and statutory precedents, opportunities and environment that has enabled these opportunities, and the how Wadawurrung past-present-future values have been scaffolded into these changes.

Dr David S.Jones is Professor (Research) at Monash University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia. With academic and professional qualifications in urban planning, landscape architecture and cultural heritage, he has taught, researched and published extensively across these areas over the last 30 years, including in Indigenous Knowledge Systems.

‘In setting forth an applied and theoretical expression of what urban spaces and journeys into Australia’s built environments could be from a First Nations perspective, this book provides a significant contribution. It offers insights into the possibilities that First Nations Peoples can perform, in a shared jurisdictional and or copartnership context, in caring for their respective urban Country. It is a text that should be read by government policy-makers, design and planning practitioners, as well as Aboriginal Councils/Corporations because it opens up possibilities for a respectfully shared future.’ — Honorary Professor Norm Sheehan, School of Education, the University of Queensland, Australia.

‘Planning for Urban Country: Taking First Nations Values into Future Urban Designs is a challenging and insightful review of the major First Nations-informed design and planning transformations that have been unfolding around Djilang (Geelong) in the last 5 years. The book offers a raft of examples, demonstrating that ‘care for Country’ is not just ‘past’ and ‘present’ but can involve the positioning of ‘future’ ‘care for Country’ and its expression in design narratives and planning. Djilang now offers a national exemplar of how Australian First Nations values can be successfully incorporated into urban design, architectural, landscape architectural and statutory/strategic planning projects, and not simply in the ‘care for Country’ rural and regional landscapes.’ 

— Associate Professor Phillip B. Roӧs, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Australia

‘What should true community engagement look like? We know it needs to involve a cooperative approach that leads to an outcome that reflects the values of the parties involved. This challenge becomes particularly pertinent when the values in question are those of First Nations Peoples.

David Jones’ timely book demonstrates alternative ways to engage First Nations Peoples, specifically Traditional Owners, in conventional planning and design processes. It offers a way forward based on the solid foundations of long held and tested First Nations’ cultural values. This ground-breaking book should be a bible for all professionals who have, are, or intend to, work in the landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, construction, and planning fields. It is also a “must read” for all the decision makers responsible for our urban environments.’ 

— Emeritus Professor Darryl Low Choy, School of Environment & Science, Griffith University, Australia

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Brings new knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into built environment contexts Tackles important discussions about the broader urban landscape, not just rural or coastal landscapes Includes a range of case studies of architectural, landscape and corridor projects

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