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Julie Nichols
Julie Nichols' research interests link the fields of urban history and theory, urban cartography, and urban design through drawing and representation practices. Her first monograph, Maps and Meanings: Urban Cartography and Urban Design (2014), traces the changing role of the map in the creation of settlements in Southeast Asian and European cities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Nichols’s interdisciplinary research interests include digital heritage; re-conceptualizing vernacular architecture; cross-cultural histories and theories of spatial design in Indonesian cities. These perspectives are evident in her current research projects in Indonesia and Australia around post-disaster reconstruction of built cultural heritage sites, archive management, and heritage tourism.