Ray Green

Professor Ray Green is a professor in Landscape, Architecture & Heritage at the Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Connecticut, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arizona, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), Green joined the University of Melbourne in 1999 following work with the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and 12 years of landscape architectural practice in the United States, Mexico, Southeast Asia, and Australia. From 2001 to 2006, he headed the Faculty's Landscape Architecture Program, and from 2011 to 2012, he served as an executive member of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. Currently, he is Professor and Chief Investigator for the Assam Project in the Smart Villages Lab, leading multidisciplinary efforts on sustainable development.

Green's academic interests center on environment-behaviour relationships in land development and conservation, climate change adaptation, sustainable landscape design and planning, the health benefits of human contact with nature in urban settings, community perceptions of place character and landscape change, cultural landscapes, low carbon cities, biomimetic facades, and public perceptions of wetlands. His research has been published in international journals of landscape architecture, urban planning, and environmental psychology, with 545 citations and 3,603 reads on ResearchGate. Key works include the authored book Coastal Towns in Transition: Local Perceptions of Landscape Change (2010); co-authored books The Green City: Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs (2005), Towards Low Carbon Cities in China: Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (2013), and Design for Change (1985); and articles such as 'Strategies used by developers in seeking EnviroDevelopment certification' (2018), 'Public perceptions of freshwater wetlands in Victoria, Australia' (2013), and 'Simulation of a biomimetic façade using TRNSYS' (2018). Green's contributions extend to teaching studios on sustainable urbanism and involvement in projects like cross-cultural capacity building in construction management.

Professional Email: rjgreen@unimelb.edu.au