Meet the editors

Paul Burton is Professor of Urban Management and Planning and Acting Director of the Urban Research Program at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. His research includes ethnographic work on the everyday professional lives of planners, the development of Australian urban policy and local scale adaptation to climate change in coastal communities. 

Jo Gill is Professor of Twentieth-Century and American Literature at the University of Exeter, UK, and author of The Poetics of the American Suburbs. From 2011 to 2014, she was the Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust funded Cultures of the Suburbs International Research Network.