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Emma Appleton (landscape architect)

Australian landscape architect and urban designer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Emma Appleton is an Australian landscape architect and urban designer notable for her contributions to urban planning and development. She is the Director of City Strategy at the City of Melbourne, Victoria.

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Education

Appleton has a Master of Urban Design from Oxford Brookes University (2002-2003), a Graduate Diploma in Landscape Architecture from Queensland University of Technology (1994-1996) and a Bachelor of Design Studies in Architecture from The University of Queensland (1991-1994). She has received a Churchill Fellowship. Her memorial trust scholarship focussed on the revitalisation of post-industrial contexts in Germany and the Netherlands.

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Background

Appleton has held senior public agency and design consultancy roles in Australia and the UK. She was identified in the list of Top 50 Public Sector Women in Victoria (2018).[1]

Prior to joining the City of Melbourne, Appleton served as Director of the Office of the Victorian Government Architect's Victorian Design Review Panel (2011-2016) and was Director of Urban Design for regeneration projects at VicUrban (2009-2011). Appleton was also Advisor and Head of Urban Design and Housing at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE 2003-2008) in London. At CABE, she co-authored ‘Creating Successful Neighbourhoods’ and contributed to ‘Creating Successful Masterplans’. Appleton's early appointments were at Gillespies (1999-2002) and Maroochy Shire Council (1997-1999).

Appleton is a Registered Landscape Architect and contributes to advisory boards of design courses at Melbourne universities. and contributed to the Board for Urban Places for Queensland Government.

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