Peter Newton

Peter Newton is an Emeritus Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. From 2007-2021 he held the position as Research Professor in Sustainable Urbanism at CUT, following fifteen years as Chief Research Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). In 2022 he was Interim Director of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) at the University of Melbourne.
He has had a distinguished career in built environment research and was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2014. His principal fields of research have focused on the technology of planning, sustainability science and urban settlement transitions.
He has published over 25 books, including: Future Cities Making: Mission-oriented Research for Urban Sustainability Transitions in Australia (2025); Greening the Greyfields. New Models for Regenerating the Middle Suburbs of Low-Density Cities (2022); Migration and Urban Transitions in Australia (2022); and Decarbonising the Built Environment (2019).