Michael Bounds

Michael Bounds is an Australian sociologist and Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Bounds lectures in urban sociology, social impact of urban development, housing, social and demographic change, impact on urban development, public housing, gentrification, development and cultural change in suburbs, master planned estates in Sydney.

From 1996 to 2002 Bounds was head of the former School of Sociology and Justice Studies at UWS. Bounds has been lecturing on urban sociology for 20 years with recent focus on gentrification and social change in the inner west of Sydney, and suburban estates in western Sydney. He is often called upon by the media to comment on Sydney's sense of community, riots and area-based violence and the impact of major events such as the 2000 Summer Olympics on a city.

Bounds is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA), and of the executive committee of the Housing and Urban Research Committee (RC 43) of the International Sociological Association (ISA).

Major works
* Urban Social Theory: City, Self and Society. Oxford University Press. 2004. ISBN 13: 9780195515459 ISBN 10: 0195515455 Paperback, 400 pages.

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