Dr Sidh Sintusingha is Coordinator, Landscape Architecture Major, Bachelor of Environments at the University of Melbourne. Prior to completing this PhD degree at the University of Melbourne and joining academia, he practiced as an architect and landscape architect in Thailand and Australia. His research focuses on addressing socio-cultural, environmental and scalar problems relating to urban sprawl and the speculation of retrofits towards urban sustainability in Southeast Asian cities. His research also addresses the evolving formal cultural landscape expressions, both planned/ designed and unplanned/ undesigned, in response to the broader phenomenon of urban sprawl. He had widely presented and published in these areas both locally and internationally in chapters in research books and refereed journals.