Johannes Pieters

Dr Johannes Pieters

School of Architecture and Built Environment

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

In January 2025 I retired from the role of Program Director for the Master and Graduate Diploma of Urban and Regional Planning at UniSA and am now an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Urban and Regional Planning Team in Adelaide University (created following the merger of UniSA and University of Adelaide). Over the last 15 years it has been an honour to have taught courses such as Understanding Cities and Regions, Social Planning and Community Issues, Planning for Healthy Cities, Professional Placement and Urban Regeneration. I also had oversight of the development of the University Online Course Ageing and Disability Friendly Environments. Please refer to the Adelaide University Home Page for details of current course offerings. 
 
My enthusiasm for the field of urban and regional planning was in part kindled through the experience of peri-urban post-migration life on the fringe of multi-cultural Melbourne and also a period as an elected member and then mayor of the City of Port Adelaide Enfield in Adelaide. My academic education has largely focused on sociology. I felt very honored to be awarded the Peter Harrison Memorial Prize at the State of Australian Cities Conference in Sydney in 2013 for a paper based on my PhD research analysing the suburban context of adjustment to retrenchment in the automotive industry. The paper discussed the impacts and opportunities that arise during and following retrenchment and how new jobs, the journey to work and the meaning of home play a role in adjusting to new circumstances. Coping with involuntary or voluntary job loss is difficult however I am critical of the moral panic surrounding retrenchment - view the Conversation article here
 
 

My current research interests include urban sociology, theories of planning, the benefits of contact with nature for people managing severe mental health conditions and the sociology and psychology of the process of adjustment to retrenchment in the automotive industry in Australia.

Year Citation
2018 Gilbert, H., Whitzman, C., Pieters, J., & Allan, A. (2018). Children's everyday freedoms: local government policies on children and sustainable mobility in two Australian states. Journal of transport geography, 71, 116-129.
DOI Scopus19 WoS22
2018 Soltani, A., Pieters, J., Young, J., & Sun, Z. (2018). Exploring city branding strategies and their impacts on local tourism success, the case study of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Asia Pacific journal of tourism research, 23(2), 158-169.
DOI Scopus48 WoS34
2017 Gilbert, H., Whitzman, C., Pieters, J., & Allan, A. (2017). Children and sustainable mobility: small feet making smaller carbon footprints. Australian planner, 54(4), 234-241.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2016 Wight, I., Kellett, J., & Pieters, J. (2016). Practice ~ reflection ~ learning: work experience in planner education. Planning Practice and Research, 31(5), 500-512.
DOI Scopus8 WoS4
2016 Daker, M., Pieters, J., & Coffee, N. T. (2016). Validating and measuring public open space is not a walk in the park. Australian Planner, 53(2), 143-151.
DOI Scopus10 WoS8
2007 Beer, A., Kearins, B., & Pieters, H. (2007). Housing affordability and planning in Australia: the challenge of policy under neo-liberalism. Housing Studies, 22(1), 11-24.
DOI Scopus208 WoS161

Year Citation
2023 Simmons, D., Soltani, A., Allan, A., & Pieters, J. (2023). Heatwaves and bus ridership: the case study of metropolitan Adelaide. In Australasian Transport Research Forum 2023 Proceedings (pp. 1-20). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2021 Bassiri Abyaneh, A., Allan, A., Pieters, J., Somenahalli, S., & Soltani, A. (2021). A GIS-based walkability analysis for the greater 3 Adelaide Metropolitan area: an evaluation of the 4 AURIN walkability index. In Australasian Transport Research Forum Proceedings (pp. 1-14). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
2018 Gilbert, H., Allan, A., & Pieters, J. (2018). Families, children and car: the environmental cost of chauffeuring children. In Australasian Transport Research Forum Papers (pp. 1-18). Australia: Australasian Transport Research Forum.
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2018 Gilbert, H., Pieters, J., & Allan, A. (2018). Unlocking the social and environmental benefits of child friendly places through active travel and active play. In State of Australian Cities National Conference 2017 (pp. 1-15). Australia: Australian Cities Research Network.
DOI
2013 Pieters, J. (2013). Adjustment to retrenchment: a case of challenging the global economy in the suburbs?. In K. Ruming, B. Randolph, & N. Gurran (Eds.), State of Australian Cities Conference 2013: refereed proceedings (pp. 1-14). NSW: State of Australian Cities Research Network.
2011 Pieters, J. (2011). (Re)packaging resistance: Australian automotive industry structural reform, worker retrenchment and the production of 'appropriate individuals'. In S. Prem (Ed.), Seventh International Critical Management Studies Conference. Italy: CMS.
2011 Pieters, J. (2011). Adjustment to retrenchment, housing and wellbeing ' putting home in its place. In Well-being 2011: International Conference exploring the multi-dimensions of well-being (pp. 1-24). UK: Earthscan Ltd.

Courses I teach

  • ARCH 5022 Social Planning and Community Issues (2025)
  • ARCH 5051 Urban Regeneration (2025)
  • ARCH 5022 Social Planning and Community Issues (2024)
  • ARCH 5043 Planning for Healthy Cities (2024)
  • ARCH 5051 Urban Regeneration (2024)
  • GRAP 5004 Professional Placement or Project (2024)

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