Kenneth Taylor

Canberra

Emeritus Professor Ken Taylor is an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, The Australian National University, and is a former Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Cultural Heritage Research Centre, University of Canberra. He has had a research interest in management of heritage places and cultural landscapes since the mid-1980s and published nationally and internationally on meanings, values, and cultural landscape conservation, as well as undertaking conservation management plans for historic cultural landscapes. He has qualifications in Geography, Town Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Heritage Management. He is a member of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes and has undertaken work with UNESCO, ICOMOS, and ICCROM. He is an Associate Editor for Landscape Research and an External Editorial Board member for AHMT (Journal of International Program in Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism), Silpakorn University, where he has been a Visiting Professor at Silpakorn University, Bangkok since 2002, teaching courses on Management of Historic Places and Cultural Landscapes in the International Program in Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism. He is a regular visitor to Asia and has lectured in China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand. He is lead editor of Managing Cultural Landscapes (2012), joint author of A Contemporary Guide to Cultural Mapping: An ASEAN-Australia Perspective (2013), co-editor of New Cultural Landscapes (2014) and lead editor of Conserving Cultural Landscapes: Challenges and New Directions (2015). His book Canberra: City in the Landscape was published in 2006.