Max Holleran is Senior 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). His book (with Samuel Holleran) Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center is forthcoming with Cornell University Press.