Glen Searle is an Australian town planner, researcher and educator. He is an Honorary Associate Professor at The University of Queensland and at the University of Sydney. He is known for his planning research and work with British and New South Wales governments. He was engaged in strategic planning and policy formulation at a senior level in the NSW Department of Planning between 1981 and 1991. His papers have been published in Planning Theory, Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Geographical Research.
Searle served as the Editor-in-Chief of Urban Policy and Research journal from 2004 to 2014. He is a fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia.
“The Games were responsible for the regeneration of their focal site at Olympic Park. Wider urban impacts are at once both significant but also less than anticipated in 2000. Development at Olympic Park created several stadia that struggled financially but have become venues for major sporting and entertainment events. Olympic Park is now being developed into a major hub for urban consolidation and commercial activity. The Olympic village resulted in a demonstration suburb with new levels of sustainability, while the Games also spurred the creation of a major regional park nearby. New Olympic venues elsewhere in Sydney have had highly variable post 2000 usage.”
Professor at the School of Geography, University of Queensland
