Richard Weller is Winthrop Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Director of the Australian Urban Design Research Centre (www.audrc.org). He has received several Excellence in Teaching awards from UWA and a consistent stream of international, design competition awards in over 25 years of design practice at all scales of landscape architecture and urban design. He has published over 70 papers and given hundreds of public lectures. Professor Weller’s design work has been published as a monograph by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2005 and his book ‘Boomtown 2050: Scenarios for a Rapidly Growing City’ was published by UWA Publishing in 2009. He has recently co-edited ‘Made in Australia’ with AUDRC colleague Dr Julian Bolleter. Professor Weller’s current research concerns the impact of population growth on Australian cities and he is a program leader in the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for WaterSensitive Cities.