STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Marco Amati
Marco Amati is an Associate Professor in International Planning. He teaches and coordinates “The Urban Age” course (HUSO2341), for the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies.
Research
While mainly focusing on trees and green spaces within urban environments, Marco is also interested in e-planning, urban agriculture, planning history and Asian cities.
Current research
Marco is currently Chief Investigator with Rob Freestone on an ARC Discovery Grant: DP120101732. $152,000 Exhibitionism: codifying and communicating planning culture in Australia 1913–1951.
Research supervision
Marco is registered for research supervision in the following areas:
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urban green spaces
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planning and health
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peri-urban regions and food
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planning history
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land reform in developing countries
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East Asian cities
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e-planning
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internet and public participation.
He has supervised 4 Higher Degree by Research (HDR) students to completion and has been involved in the supervision of many other students. He was in charge of the administration of the ~70 HDR student experience for students in the Department of Environment and Geography (Macquarie University) 2009–2013.
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PhD, University of Tsukuba, 2005
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Master of Environmental Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, 1998
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Bachelor of Environmental Sciences (Energy Option) Honours, Leeds University, 1996
Professional interests
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Member of the Planning Institute of Australia (Environmental Planning Chapter)
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Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
- Hotker, M.,Steele, W.,Amati, M. (2020). When gambling fails: Caring-with urban communities at the local scale In: Cities, 100, 1 - 15
- Saunders, A.,Duncan, J.,Hurley, J.,Amati, M.,Caccetta, P.,Chia, J.,Boruff, B. (2020). Leaf my neighbourhood alone! predicting the influence of densification on residential tree canopy cover in Perth In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 199, 1 - 12
- Amati, M.,McCarthy, C.,Parmehr, E.,Sita, J. (2019). Combining eye-tracking data with an analysis of video content from free-viewing a video of a walk in an Urban park environment In: Journal of Visualized Experiments, 2019, 1 - 9
- Hurley, J.,Amati, M.,Both, A.,Sun, Q. (2019). Urban Vegetation Cover Change in Melbourne 2012-2018 In: Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Melbourne, Australia
- Amati, M.,Ghanbari Parmehr, E.,McCarthy, C.,Sita, J. (2018). How eye-catching are natural features when walking through a park? Eye-tracking responses to videos of walks In: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 31, 67 - 78
- Parris, K.,Amati, M.,Bekessy, S.,Dagenais, D.,Fryd, O.,Hahs, A.,Hes, D.,Imberger, S.,Livesley, S.,Marshall, A.,Rhodes, J.,Threlfall, C.,Tingley, R.,van der Ree, R.,Walsh, C.,Wilkerson, M.,Williams, N. (2018). The seven lamps of planning for biodiversity in the city In: Cities, 83, 1 - 20
- Dias Baptista, M.,Livesley, S.,Parmehr, E.,Neave, M.,Amati, M. (2018). Variation in leaf area density drives the rainfall storage capacity of individual urban tree species In: Hydrological Processes, 32, 3729 - 3740
- Duncan, J.,Boruff, B.,Saunders, A.,Sun, Q.,Hurley, J.,Amati, M. (2018). Turning down the heat: An enhanced understanding of the relationship between urban vegetation and surface temperature at the city scale In: Science of The Total Environment, 656, 118 - 128
- Dias Baptista, M.,Livesley, S.,Parmehr, E.,Neave, M.,Amati, M. (2018). Terrestrial laser scanning to predict canopy area metrics, water storage capacity, and throughfall redistribution in small trees In: Remote Sensing, 10, 1 - 22
- Amati, M.,Freestone, R.,Robertson, S. (2017). "Learning the city": Patrick Geddes, exhibitions, and communicating planning ideas In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 166, 97 - 105
- Where will all the trees be?. Funded by: Horticulture Innovation Australia Limited - Competitive from (2020 to 2020)
- Alive & Thriving - Phase 1 - Indoor plant survival matrix. Funded by: Horticulture Innovation Australia Limited - Contract (note the company is no longer eligible for CAT 1) from (2019 to 2019)
- Global review of incentive schemes for the retention and successful establishment of trees on private urban land (Administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: Horticulture Innovation Australia Limited - Competitive from (2019 to 2019)
- Greening the West Strategy Refresh (Administered by GHD Pty Ltd). Funded by: City West Water Limited from (2019 to 2019)
- Enabling active travel in Australian cities by mapping shadeways (Smart Active Transport - Urban Heat Maps for Bendigo). Funded by: Smart Cities and Suburbs Program - 2017 onwards from (2017 to 2020)
2 PhD Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions