Dr Elizabeth Taylor

Monash University

Dr Elizabeth Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design at Monash University. Often using spatial and historical perspectives, her research develops understanding of long-term urban change and the role of policy settings in it. One focus is car parking – an unnoticed but ubiquitous land use with broader repercussions for contested rights to urban space.

In 2018 she published the book “Dry Zones” on liquor licensing history and its legacies for planning systems today. Her current research projects examine the past and future of industrial land, and of Australia’s new city projects.

She is an enthusiast of country swimming pools and is working on ways to make the jurisprudence of pool rules a legitimate research interest.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.