Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Director of the Informal Urbanism Research hub (InfUr-) at the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne.
He is an architect by training with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and his research is broadly focused on theories of place, power and urban informality. He has published widely in the fields of architecture, urban design, urban planning, geography and urban studies. Books include Framing Places (1999, 2008), Becoming Places (2010), Fluid City (2005), Urban Design Thinking (2016), Urban Choreography (2018) and Mapping Urbanities (2018).