Dr Thomas Sigler
Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School
School of the Environment
+61 7 336 53804
Chamberlain Building (35), Room 509
Researcher biography
I am an economic and urban geographer interested in (a) how globalisation shapes cities, and (b) how cities and urban space are shaped by globalisation. The first of these themes focusses on 'the global economy' and how various firms, institutions, and industries are distributed across space. This incorporates both existing geographies as well as change over time, as the shifting global economy has dynamic consequences. The second of these focusses more concretely on cities and the dynamics within them. I supervise a broad range of MPhil and Phd projects, and have active collaborations with partners in Australia, North America, Europe, and East Asia.
My specific interests fall into the following three areas:
1. The Sharing Economy, which has been popularised by platforms such as Uber and Airbnb. We currently have projects focusing on e-scooter sharing, short-term rentals, and labour platforms.
2. Land Use Change and Housing, with a focus on the interrelated processes of gentrification, suburbanisation, property investment, migration, and urban renewal. I am particularly interested in changing urban spatial structure with regard to macroeconomic, and specifically post-industrial, shifts that are occurring in cities around the world.
3. Global networks, with a focus on the diverse socio-economic connections between the world's cities. This research theme combines network science, economic geography, and urban studies.
Publications
Book Chapters
Laukova, Dagmara, Bernard, Aude and Sigler, Thomas (2022). Settlement and migration patterns of immigrants by visa class in Australia. New frontiers in regional science: Asian perspectives. (pp. 165-191) edited by Masamichi Kawano, Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Yoshiro Higano. Singapore, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore. doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-6695-7_10
Sigler, Thomas, Martinus, Kirsten and Matous, Petr (2021). The role of proximity and distance in inter-urban networks. Handbook of Cities and Networks. (pp. 239-251) edited by Zachary P. Neal and Céline Rozenblat. Northampton, MA, United States: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781788114714.00018
Wei, Ming, Liu, Yan, Sigler, Thomas and Corcoran, Jonathan (2021). Unpacking the weather-transit ridership relationship using big data in Brisbane and beyond. Big Data Applications in Geography and Planning: An Essential Companion. (pp. 245-255) edited by Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Jonathan Corcoran and Robert Stimson. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781789909791.00021
Martinus, Kirsten, Loginova, Julia and Sigler, Thomas (2021). Scale as a lens to understand resource economies in the global periphery. Resource peripheries in the global economy: networks, scales, and places of extraction. (pp. 87-108) edited by Felipe Irarrázaval and Martín Arias-Loyola. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-84606-0_5
Sigler, Thomas, Searle, Glen and Martinus, Kirsten (2020). Economic Cities. Understanding Urbanism. (pp. 27-45) edited by Dallas Rogers, Adrienne Keane, Tooran Alizadeh and Jacqueline Nelson. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-981-15-4386-9_3
Tang, Angelina Zhi Rou, Rowe, Francisco, Corcoran, Jonathan and Sigler, Thomas (2016). Spatial mobility patterns of overseas graduates in Australia. Demography for planning and policy: Australian case studies. (pp. 175-195) edited by Tom Wilson, Elin Charles-Edwards and Martin Bell. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22135-9_10
Albandoz, Roberto, Brothers, Tim, Dixon, Seth, Escamilla, Irma, Scarpaci, Joseph L. and Sigler, Thomas (2016). Cities of middle America and the Caribbean. Cities of the world: regional patterns and urban environments. (pp. 97-135) edited by Stanley D. Brunn, Jessica K. Graybill, Maureen Hays-Mitchell and Donald J. Zeigler. Lanham, MD, United States: Rowman & Littlefield.
Martinus, Kirsten and Sigler, Thomas (2016). Boomtown globalising: Perth as an international connected resource hub. Planning boomtown and beyond. (pp. 27-42) edited by Sharon Biermann, Doina Olaru and Valerià Paül. Perth, WA, Australia: UWA Publishing.
Sigler, Thomas J. and Zhao, Simon X. B. (2016). Hong Kong as an offshore trading hub. The local impact of globalization in South and Southeast Asia: offshore business processes in services. (pp. 94-109) edited by Bart Lambregts, Niels Beerepoot and Robert C. Kloosterman. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315772776-16
Journal Articles
Gallagher, Rachel, Sigler, Thomas Jason and Liu, Yan (2023). Character contradiction: the exclusionary nature of preservationist planning restrictions. Urban Studies, 61 (6), 1013-1030. doi: 10.1177/00420980231195218
Sigler, T., Zou, Z., Corcoran, J. and Charles‐Edwards, E. (2023). Spatio‐temporal variation in the bid–rent functions of long‐term and short‐term rentals: evidence from South‐East Queensland, Australia. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 115 (1), 42-63. doi: 10.1111/tesg.12588
Gallagher, Rachel, Sigler, Thomas and Liu, Yan (2023). How path dependent urban morphology restricts the effectiveness of rezoning for urban consolidation: lessons from Brisbane, Australia. Journal of Urban Affairs. doi: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2211770
Sigler, Thomas (2023). Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It : by M. Nolan Gray, Washington, DC, Island Press, 2022, 256 pp., US$30.00 (pbk), ISBN: 9781642832549. Urban Policy and Research, 41 (3), 1-2. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2023.2198291
Wilson, Tom, Zou, Frank and Sigler, Thomas (2022). Were there really 1 million unoccupied dwellings in Australia on census night 2021?. Australian Population Studies, 6 (2), 14-26. doi: 10.37970/aps.v6i2.106
Nunez-Picado, Adriana, Martinus, Kirsten and Sigler, Thomas (2022). Junior Miner internationalisation in the globalising mining industry. Resources Policy, 79 103084, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.103084
Kimpton, Anthony, Loginova, Julia, Pojani, Dorina, Bean, Richard, Sigler, Thomas and Corcoran, Jonathan (2022). Weather to scoot? How weather shapes shared e-scooter ridership patterns. Journal of Transport Geography, 104 103439, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103439
Gallagher, Rachel, Sigler, Thomas and Liu, Yan (2022). Urban “blandscapes”: how the practical implementation of planning policy reduces land use diversity. Urban Policy and Research, 41 (3), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2022.2122427
Sigler, Thomas, Neal, Zachary and Martinus, Kirsten (2022). Brokerage as an urban and regional process between systems and scales. Regional Studies, 57 (2), 1-6. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2093343
Arias-Loyola, Martín, Loginova, Julia, Miao, Julie, Phelps, Nicholas A., Sigler, Thomas and Zulu, Idah (2022). Beyond the resource curse: The redistributive challenge of sustainable resource-led development in Australia, Chile and Zambia. The Extractive Industries and Society, 11 101084, 101084. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2022.101084
Mahmuda, Sirat, Sigler, Thomas, Corcoran, Jonathan and Knight, Eric (2022). Airbnb and micro‐entrepreneurship in regional economies: Lessons from Australia. Geographical Research, 60 (2), 269-285. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12506
Loginova, Julia, Sigler, Thomas, Searle, Glen and O'Connor, Kevin (2022). The distribution of national urban hierarchies of connectivity within global city networks. Global Networks, 22 (2), 274-291. doi: 10.1111/glob.12344
Laukova, Dagmara, Bernard, Aude, Nguyen, Toan and Sigler, Thomas (2022). The role of visa class in the location choices of immigrants in Australia at the regional and neighbourhood scales. Journal of Population Research, 39 (2), 201-231. doi: 10.1007/s12546-022-09280-w
Nunez‐Picado, Adriana, Martinus, Kirsten and Sigler, Thomas (2022). Globalisation strategies and roles among Australian junior mining firms in Latin America. Geographical Research, 60 (1) 1745-5871.12505, 179-195. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12505
Zheng, Shuangshuang and Sigler, Thomas (2021). Assessing land-use suitability of existing inclusionary zoning projects in the Australian Capital Territory. Journal of Social Inclusion, 12 (2), 30-52. doi: 10.36251/josi.228
Sigler, Thomas (2021). How super-gentrification shapes “place-based class cultures”: a review of aspen and the American dream. Social Forces, 100 (4). doi: 10.1093/sf/soab137
Sobyra, Robert, Sigler, Thomas and Charles-Edwards, Elin (2021). Unbalanced growth in the labourscape: explaining regional employment divergence. Regional Studies, 56 (7), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1972958
Sigler, Thomas, Martinus, Kirsten and Loginova, Julia (2021). Socio-spatial relations observed in the global city network of firms. PLoS One, 16 (8) e0255461, e0255461. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255461
Sigler, Thomas, Martinus, Kirsten, Iacopini, Iacopo, Derudder, Ben and Loginova, Julia (2021). The structural architecture of international industry networks in the global economy. PLoS One, 16 (8) e0255450, e0255450. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255450
Sigler, Thomas, Neal, Zachary P. and Martinus, Kirsten (2021). The brokerage roles of city-regions in global corporate networks. Regional Studies, 57 (2), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1950914
Sigler, Thomas, Boyd, Hayley and Kimpton, Anthony (2021). Sociospatial factors explaining daylight saving preferences in Australia. The Professional Geographer, 73 (4), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/00330124.2021.1933550
Sigler, Thomas, Mahmuda, Sirat, Kimpton, Anthony, Loginova, Julia, Wohland, Pia, Charles-Edwards, Elin and Corcoran, Jonathan (2021). The socio-spatial determinants of COVID-19 diffusion: the impact of globalisation, settlement characteristics and population. Globalization and Health, 17 (1) 56, 56. doi: 10.1186/s12992-021-00707-2
Wong, Catherine, Hesse, Markus and Sigler, Thomas J. (2021). City-states in relational urbanization: the case of Luxembourg and Singapore. Urban Geography, 43 (4), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2021.1878331
Wang, Siqin, Liu, Yan, Sigler, Thomas and Corcoran, Jonathan (2021). Using WeChat data to understand residential mobility of mainland China-born migrants in Australia: a segmented assimilation perspective. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 14 (3), 703-729. doi: 10.1007/s12061-020-09368-x
Loginova, Julia, Sigler, Thomas and Martinus, Kirsten (2020). Spatial differentiation of variegated capitalisms: a comparative analysis of Russian and Australian oil and gas corporate city networks. Economic Geography, 96 (5), 1-27. doi: 10.1080/00130095.2020.1833713
Gallagher, Rachel, Sigler, Thomas and Liu, Yan (2020). 'Protect the Brisbane backyard!' (Except from subdivision for additional house construction). Australian Planner, 56 (4), 278-289. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2020.1854800
Sigler, Thomas and Wachsmuth, David (2020). New directions in transnational gentrification: Tourism-led, state-led and lifestyle-led urban transformations. Urban Studies, 57 (15), 004209802094404-3201. doi: 10.1177/0042098020944041
Mahmuda, S., Sigler, T., Knight, E. and Corcoran, J. (2020). Sectoral evolution and shifting service delivery models in the sharing economy. Business Research, 13 (2), 663-684. doi: 10.1007/s40685-020-00110-4
Gallagher, Rachel, Liu, Yan and Sigler, Thomas (2019). Parcel amalgamation as a mechanism for achieving urban consolidation through densification: the fixity of property boundaries over time. Land Use Policy, 89 104239, 104239. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104239
Arringer, Renee, Sigler, Thomas and Charles-Edwards, Elin (2019). Residential concentration patterns of immigrant groups in Australia’s major cities. Australian Population Studies, 3 (2), 41-44. doi: 10.37970/aps.v3i2.54
Martinus, Kirsten, Sigler, Thomas, Iacopini, Iacopo and Derudder, Ben (2019). The brokerage role of small states and territories in global corporate networks. Growth and Change, 52 (1) grow.12336, 12-28. doi: 10.1111/grow.12336
Gallagher, Rachel, Sigler, Thomas and Liu, Yan (2019). Targeted urban consolidation or ad hoc redevelopment? The influence of cadastral structure and change on the urban form of Brisbane, Australia. Urban Geography, 41 (2), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2019.1663058
Wei, Ming, Liu, Yan, Sigler, Thomas, Liu, Xiaoyang and Corcoran, Jonathan (2019). The influence of weather conditions on adult transit ridership in the sub-tropics. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 125, 106-118. doi: 10.1016/j.tra.2019.05.003
Sigler, Thomas J., Mouat, Clare M., Searle, Glen and Martinus, Kirsten (2019). “Networked coalitions” as metropolitan governance: Lessons from the emergence of Australia’s Committees for Cities and Regions. Journal of Urban Affairs, 43 (1), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/07352166.2019.1592651
Sigler, Thomas, Martinus, Kirsten, Iacopini, Iacopo and Derudder, Ben (2019). The role of tax havens and offshore financial centres in shaping corporate geographies: an industry sector perspective. Regional Studies, 54 (5), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2019.1602257
Li, Ying, Beeton, Robert J. S., Sigler, Thomas and Halog, Anthony (2019). Enhancing the adaptive capacity for urban sustainability: a bottom-up approach to understanding the urban social system in China. Journal of Environmental Management, 235, 51-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.01.044
Wang, Siqin, Liu, Yan, Sigler, Thomas and Corcoran, Jonathan (2019). 3D space–time visualization of individual settlement pathways of Mainland China-born migrants in Queensland, Australia. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51 (2), 275-278. doi: 10.1177/0308518x18805752
Wang, Siqin, Sigler, Thomas, Corcoran, Jonathan and Liu, Yan (2019). Modelling the spatial dynamics of Mainland China-born migrants in Australia. Australian Geographer, 50 (2), 201-219. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2018.1508542
Martinus, Kirsten, Sigler, Thomas, Iacopini, Iacopo and Derudder, Ben (2018). The role of tax havens and offshore financial centers in Asia-Pacific networks: evidence from firm-subsidiary connections. Asian Business & Management, 18 (5), 389-411. doi: 10.1057/s41291-018-00051-1
Sigler, Thomas, Lieske, Scott N., Charles-Edwards, Elin and Corcoran, Jonathan (2018). Why do a PhD in geography? A sympathetic response to ‘the career aspirations and expectations of geography students’. Geographical Research, 56 (4), 479-483. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12307
Wang, Siqin, Sigler, Thomas, Liu, Yan and Corcoran, Jonathan (2018). Shifting dynamics of Chinese settlement in Australia: an urban geographic perspective. Geographical Research, 56 (4), 447-464. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12293
Wang, Siqin, Corcoran, Jonathan, Liu, Yan and Sigler, Thomas (2018). Understanding ‘segmented assimilation’ in Australian cities: modelling the residential choices of mainland China-, Hong Kong- and Taiwan-born migrants. Applied Geography, 99, 140-153. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.08.004
Hilder, Jason, Charles-Edwards, Elin, Sigler, Thomas and Metcalf, Bill (2018). Housemates, inmates and living mates: communal living in Australia. Australian Planner, 55 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/07293682.2018.1494612
Wei, Ming, Corcoran, Jonathan, Sigler, Thomas and Liu, Yan (2018). Modeling the Influence of Weather on Transit Ridership: A Case Study from Brisbane, Australia. Transportation Research Record, 2672 (8), 036119811877707-510. doi: 10.1177/0361198118777078
Pan, Fenghua, Bi, Wenkai, Liu, Xingjian and Sigler, Thomas (2018). Exploring financial centre networks through inter-urban collaboration in high-end financial transactions in China. Regional Studies, 54 (2), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2018.1475728
Martinus, Kirsten, Sigler, Thomas J., O’Neill, Phillip and Tonts, Matthew (2018). ‘Global restructuring’ two decades on: Australia’s relational economy in the twenty-first century. Australian Geographer, 49 (3), 341-348. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2018.1446384
Damien, Charrieras, Darchen, Sebastien and Sigler, Thomas (2018). The shifting spaces of creativity in Hong Kong. Cities, 74, 134-141. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.11.014
Searle, Glen, Sigler, Thomas and Martinus, Kirsten (2018). Firm evolution and cluster specialization: a social network analysis of resource industry change in two Australian cities. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 5 (1), 369-387. doi: 10.1080/21681376.2018.1539347
Wang, Siqin, Corcoran, Jonathan, Liu, Yan and Sigler, Thomas (2018). Visualising the internal migration of the mainland China-born population between Australian capital cities over time. Australian Population Studies, 2 (1), 56-58. doi: 10.37970/aps.v2i1.26
Sigler, Thomas J., Searle, Glen and Martinus, Kirsten (2017). Industrial location and global restructuring in Australian cities. Australian Geographer, 49 (3), 365-381. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2017.1385228
Balaji, Murali and Sigler, Thomas (2017). Glocal riddim: cultural production and territorial identity in Caribbean music videos. Visual Communication, 17 (1), 91-111. doi: 10.1177/1470357217727675
Pan, Fenghua , He, Ziyun , Sigler, Thomas , Martinus, Kirsten and Derudder, Ben (2017). How Chinese financial centers integrate into global financial center networks: an empirical study based on overseas expansion of Chinese financial service firms. Chinese Geographical Science, 28 (2), 1-14. doi: 10.1007/s11769-017-0913-7
Martinus, Kirsten and Sigler, Thomas J. (2017). Global city clusters: theorizing spatial and non-spatial proximity in inter-urban firm networks. Regional Studies, 52 (8), 1041-1052. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2017.1314457
Sigler, Thomas J. (2016). After the ‘World City’ has globalised: four agendas towards a more nuanced framework for global urban research. Geography Compass, 10 (9), 389-398. doi: 10.1111/gec3.12276
Sigler, Thomas J. and Martinus, Kirsten (2016). Extending beyond ‘world cities’ in World City Network (WCN) research: urban positionality and economic linkages through the Australia-based corporate network. Environment and Planning A, 49 (12), 2916-2937. doi: 10.1177/0308518X16659478
Li, Ying, Beeton, R. J. S., Halog, Anthony and Sigler, Thomas (2016). Evaluating urban sustainability potential based on material flow analysis of inputs and outputs: A case study in Jinchang City, China. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 110, 87-98. doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.03.023
Li, Ying, Beeton, R. J. S., Sigler, Thomas and Halog, Anthony (2015). Modelling the transition toward urban sustainability: a case study of the industrial city of Jinchang, China. Journal of Cleaner Production, 134, 22-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.053
Sigler, Thomas, Searle, Glen, Martinus, Kirsten and Tonts, Matthew (2015). Metropolitan land-use patterns by economic function: a spatial analysis of firm headquarters and branch office locations in Australian cities. Urban Geography, 37 (3), 416-435. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2015.1075318
Martinus, Kirsten, Sigler, Thomas J., Searle, Glen and Tonts, Matthew (2015). Strategic globalizing centers and sub-network geometries: A social network analysis of multi-scalar energy networks. Geoforum, 64, 78-89. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.06.006
Li, Ying, Cheng, Hao, Beeton, R. J. S., Sigler, Thomas and Halog, Anthony (2015). Sustainability from a Chinese cultural perspective: the implications of harmonious development in environmental management. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 18 (3), 679-696. doi: 10.1007/s10668-015-9671-9
Sigler, Thomas (2015). The Panama Canal Zone: a historical revisionist's perspective. Postcolonial Studies doi: 10.1080/13688790.2015.1027139
Sigler, Thomas and Wachsmuth, David (2015). Transnational gentrification: Globalisation and neighbourhood change in Panama’s Casco Antiguo. Urban Studies, 53 (4), 705-722. doi: 10.1177/0042098014568070
Sigler, Thomas J., Amen, Kali-Ahset and Dwyer, K. Angelique (2014). The Heterogeneous Isthmus: Transnationalism and Cultural Differentiation in Panama. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 34 (2), 229-244. doi: 10.1111/blar.12266
Tang, Angelina Zhi Rou, Rowe, Francisco, Corcoran, Jonathan and Sigler, Thomas (2014). Where are the overseas graduates staying on? Overseas graduate migration and rural attachment in Australia. Applied Geography, 53, 66-76. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.06.004
Sigler, Thomas J. (2014). Panama as palimpsest: the reformulation of the 'transit corridor' in a global economy. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38 (3), 886-902. doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12132
Sigler, Thomas J. (2014). Monaco with bananas, a tropical Manhattan, or a Singapore for Central America? Explaining rapid urban growth in Panama City, Panama. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 35 (2), 261-278. doi: 10.1111/sjtg.12058
Sigler, Thomas and Albandoz, Roberto I. (2013). Beyond representation: film as a pedagogical tool in urban geography. Journal of Geography, Published online (2), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00221341.2013.764918
Sigler, Thomas J. (2013). Relational cities: Doha, Panama City, and Dubai as 21st century entrepots. Urban Geography, 34 (5), 612-633. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2013.778572
Sigler, Thomas J. (2013). Panama’s special economic zones: balancing growth and development. Bulletin of Latin American Research, 33 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1111/blar.12035
Sigler, Thomas and Balaji, Murali (2013). Regional place representation in hip-hop music. Communication, Culture and Critique, 6 (2), 336-352. doi: 10.1111/cccr.12006
Sigler, Thomas J. (2012). Balancing human and ecological concerns in the DRC’s Ituri Forest. Australasian Review of African Studies, 33 (1), 177-186.
Sigler, Thomas (2012). Review of Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Healthier, and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser. Urban Affairs Review, 48 (1), 141-142. doi: 10.1177/1078087411423353
Sigler, Thomas (2012). Globalization, modernity and the city. John Rennie Short. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 103 (2), 256-257. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2012.00707.x
Thomas Sigler (2011). Transforming markets in the built environment: adapting to climate change by Sue Roaf (ed.). Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 20 (1), 158-159.
Sigler, Thomas (2011). Book Review: Democracy as problem solving: civic capacity in communities across the globe, by Xavier de Souza Briggs. Urban Affairs Review, 47 (1), 147-149. doi: 10.1177/1078087410375061
Sigler, Thomas (2009). Mixed-use megaprojects in the global context: lessons from Las Vegas. Human Geography: a new radical journal, 2 (2), 77-82.
Conference Papers
Sigler, Thomas, Parker, Ben and Martinus, Kirsten (2018). The Corporate Geography of Australian Cities: Tracking change in ASX-Listed Firm Headquarters in Australian Cities, 2013-2016. State of Australian Cities, Adelaide, Australia, 28-30 November 2017. Melbourne, VIC Australia: Analysis & Policy Observatory. doi: 10.4225/50/5b2c7669935c7
Wei, Ming, Liu, Yan and Sigler, Thomas J. (2015). An exploratory analysis of Brisbane’s commuter travel patterns using smart card data. State of Australian Cities National Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 9-11 December 2015. State of Australian Cities Research Network.
Holz, Jessica L. and Sigler, Thomas J. (2015). Green urbanism in Australia: an evaluation of green building rating schemes. State of Australian Cities National Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 9-11 December 2015. State of Australian Cities Research Network.
Sigler, Thomas (2015). One City, Many Networks: Brisbane’s Global Position within Multiple Flows. State of Australian Cities Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 9-11 December 2015. State of Australian Cities Research Network.
Sigler, Thomas (2013). Corporate clustering in Australian cities: an analysis of the geographic distribution of ASX-listed headquarters. SOAC 2013: 6th State of Australian Cities Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 26-29 November, 2013. Hobart, TAS, Australia: State of Australian Cities Research Network.
Sigler, Thomas (2012). Globalising Australian cities: an overview. 36th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association International (ANZRSAI), Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 5-7 December 2012. Canterbury, New Zealand: AERU Research Unit.
Working Paper
Charles-Edwards, Elin, Zheng, Shuangshuang, Wyeth, Stephanie, Hensley, Melissa and Sigler, Thomas (2022). Housing demand in Queensland: Ageing and Regional Change. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia.
Research Report
Sigler, Thomas and Martinus, Kirsten (2018). Perth's Global Connectivity. Factbase Bulletin Perth, WA, Australia: Universtiy of Western Australia - Committee of Perth.
Newspaper Articles
Buning, Richard, Corcoran, Jonathan, Rahbar, Maisie, McKercher, Bob, Pojani, Dorina, Sigler, Thomas, Zou, Frank and Hardy, Anne (2023, 01 25). Why e-scooters are the 'public mobility glue' for urban transport Contact Magazine
Gallagher, Rachel and Sigler, Thomas (2020, 12 11). Why city policy to ‘protect the Brisbane backyard’ is failing The Conversation
Sigler, Thomas and Panczak, Radoslaw (2020, 02 13). Ever wondered how many Airbnbs Australia has and where they all are? We have the answers The Conversation
Sigler, Thomas and Charles-Edwards, Elin (2019, 03 19). Married at First Sight’s closer to reality than you’d think, demographically speaking at least The Conversation
Sigler, Thomas, Corcoran, Jonathan, Wang, Siqin and Liu, Yan (2018, 11 06). Where are Chinese migrants choosing to settle in Australia? Look to the suburbs The Conversation
Sigler, Thomas (2017, 03 06). Trump and Brexit won't kill globalisation- we're too far in The Conversation
Sigler, Thomas (2016, 08 24). Research critics miss the big picture The Australian
Sigler, Thomas and Searle, Glen (2016, 06 15). Brisbane Metro: Planning experts point out problems in subway plan The Courier-Mail
Martinus, Kirsten and Sigler, Thomas (2015, 08 19). Perth the big player in Australia’s global energy scene Business News Western Australia
Department Technical Reports
Martinus, Kirsten, Sigler, Thomas, Tonts, Matthew and Hickey, Sharyn (2016). The attraction of Perth and Peel centres for global firms and local commuters. Factbase Bulletin, 47. Committee for Perth.
Sigler, Thomas (2009). A rapid rural assessment of the charcoal briquette industry in the Northeastern DR Congo. The United States Agency for International Development.