The 2025 PhD in Urban Planning Lecture, “The Trouble With Land and Housing Justice: Views From a Settler Colony” will be delivered by Libby Porter (RMIT), with a response by Tom Slater (GSAPP).

Planning for land and housing in settler colonial cities is structurally ruined. Devised as a regime to spatialise settler-colonialism, urban land-use planning continues to enable dispossession, expulsion and extraction at scales from the mundane to the spectacular. Drawing inspiration from the Indigenous concept of Country in so-called Australia and the fact of Indigenous sovereignty-never-ceded, the lecture will examine contemporary housing and land politics and struggles, and trouble the view of land, planning, housing and justice from a site of structural ruin.