Donald Leslie Johnson has written extensively for books and journals on Australian and American architectural history and American city planning history and is completing research on Romanesque architecture and on the education of Frank Lloyd Wright. He attended Louis I. Kahn's masterclass of 1960 at the University of Pennsylvania and was a member of the American Institute of Architects. He is an Adjunct Professor of Architectural History at the University of South Australia, has taught design and history in a number of American and Australian universities, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and currently resides in Kangarilla, South Australia.
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'Anticipating Municipal Parks is well argued and supported by extensive evidence. It is a fascinating story of how an established historical 'fact' can change when we go back to the original sources and study them carefully.' - Nic Klaassen, Flinders Ranges Research
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'A highly readable, entertaining and learned text. As a trip through a history of ideas, Anticipating Municipal Parks takes a very scenic and engaging route … Johnson's provocative … study within a study is to be welcomed as a new contribution to Australian planning history in a global context.' - David Nichols, Fabrications journal
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'What sets this book apart from other local histories is the considerable (and considered) treatment of early nineteenth-century reformers such as J.C. Loudon and John Arthus Roebuck and the context in which the author places his contentious subject park land.' - Australian Garden History
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'An admirable, sustained and valuable work … His passion for the subject is engaging … Of considerable interest and value to urban planners, academic researchers into park land development, those park managers interested in parkland theory and background, and assorted historians and researchers.' - Warwick Mayne-Wilson, Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, No. 42