JOE HAJDU

Over a long academic career, largely at Deakin University and its antecedents in Melbourne, Australia, Joe has also written numerous academic articles and texts, whose themes range from the teaching of geography in high schools, the need to make city centres more pedestrian friendly, foreign ownership of urban property in Australia to the effect on people's lives of the Iron Curtain that divided East and West Germany until 1989. During his long career Joe has been an active member of the Institute of Australian Geographers, Town and Country Planning Association of Victoria, Australian Institute of Urban Affairs and the Australian Geography Teacher association... Joe Hajdu, Academic and Writer, Budapest, Berlin Today, Samurai in the Surf