Max Holleran is Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Melbourne. His work focuses on urban development, particularly how cities manage tourism, housing, and densification.

He has written about gentrification, architectural aesthetics, post-socialist urban planning, and European Union integration for anthropology, sociology, geography, and history journals. His work on cities and politics has also appeared in the New Republic, Slate, the Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union (Palgrave, 2020).