Dr. Caroline Miller is a planning

Environmental planning

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 professor

Professor

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 and historian

Historian

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 at Massey University

Massey University

Massey University is one of New Zealand's largest universities with approximately 36,000 students, 20,000 of whom are extramural students.The University has campuses in Palmerston North , Wellington and Auckland . Massey offers most of its degrees extramurally within New Zealand and internationally...

, Palmerston North, and is the author of New Zealand

New Zealand

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’s first book on planning history; The Unsung Profession.

Biography

Caroline Miller graduated from the University of Auckland

University of Auckland

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 with a BA

Bachelor of Arts

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, and entered the planning profession in 1980. She worked for the Palmerston North City Council as a planning practitioner, and became associated with Massey University as a teacher in programmes offered by the Property Studies Programme.

In 1995 Miller joined the School of Resource and Environmental Planning. Having obtained a BRP

Bachelor of Resource and Environmental Planning

The Bachelor of Resource and Environmental Planning is a professional degree that seeks to integrate the disciplines of Urban planning, Environmental planning and Natural resource management...

, Miller went on to complete a PhD

PHD

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 thesis on the history of the planning profession in New Zealand from 1900-1933. Her continued research interest in planning history led to the release of The Unsung Profession on 26 March 2007. Other research interests include urban planning

Urban planning

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 generally, and the relationship between local government

Local government

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structures and planning practice.