Dr Kate Shaw
Dr Kate Shaw is an urban geographer at Melbourne University, with a focus on the cultures of cities and the political-economic and social processes shaping them. Of particular interest are urban planning and policy practices and their capacity to deliver social equity and cultural diversity. Kate was previously Deputy Chair of the City of Melbourne’s Creative Spaces working group, a member of the Victorian State government’s live music roundtable, and advisor to the City of Sydney’s live music taskforce. She is currently writing a book on the redevelopment of deindustrialised docks in rich world cities, titled The squander and salvage of urban waterfronts, to be published by Palgrave Macmillan.