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Book Ideas for Australian Cities

Download or read book Ideas for Australian Cities written by Hugh Stretton and published by Transit Australia. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Made in Australia

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  • Author : Richard Weller
  • Publisher : Apollo Books
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781742584928
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Made in Australia written by Richard Weller and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you creatively plan for a population of 62 million by 2100, Australia's current major city planning frameworks only account for an extra 5.5 million people. Whether we want a 'Big Australia' or not, Australia's 21st century is likely to see rapid and continual growth - and if we want liveable, high functioning cities and regional centres we need to think outside the box. Richard Weller and Julian Bolleter (Australian Urban Design Research Centre) offer optimistic and creative solutions for the future with one imperative: what we build this century will make or break our country.

Book Australian Metropolis

Download or read book Australian Metropolis written by Robert Freestone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Metropolis splendidly fills a huge gap in the literature on Australian cities. It is the definitive account of the history of Australian cities and the crucial role which planning has played in their genesis and growth. Spanning two centuries from the very beginning until the present day, it will instantly become a standard work ' Professor Sir Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilisation.. The Australian Metropolis provides a single-volume introduction to the development of urban planning. It fills the need for a convenient, initial resource for anyone interested in the broad evolutionary sweep of modern planning. By setting the evolution of Australian planning within its broader societal context, The Australian Metropolis presents a balanced appraisal of the positive, negative and ambivalent legacies resulting from attempts to plan Australia's major cities. This book is the winner of two Royal Australian Planning Institute Awards for Planning Excellence in 2000/2001, including the New South Wales' Division Prize for Planning Scholarship in February 2001.

Book City Dreamers

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  • Author : Graeme Davison
  • Publisher : NewSouth
  • Release : 2016-08-01
  • ISBN : 1742242537
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book City Dreamers written by Graeme Davison and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism. In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime’s work, Davison views Australian history, from 1788 to the present day, through the eyes of city dreamers – such as Henry Lawson, Charles Bean and Hugh Stretton – and others who have helped make the cities we inhabit. Davison looks at significant individuals or groups that he calls snobs, slummers, pessimists, exodists, suburbans and anti-suburbans – and argues that there’s a particular twist to the ways in which Australians think about cities. And the ways we live in them. This extraordinary book excavates the cultural history of the Australian city by focusing on ‘dreamers’, those who battle to make and re-make our cities. It reminds us that for most of us the city is home, and it is there that we find belonging.

Book Designing Australia s Cities

Download or read book Designing Australia s Cities written by Robert Freestone and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at how the American City Beautiful movement influenced the design and development of Australian cities, this study surveys the ruling ideas, influences, outcomes, and enduring legacies of the early artistic turn in Australian urban design.

Book Urban 45

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  • Author : Rowland Atkinson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780980445206
  • Pages : 59 pages

Download or read book Urban 45 written by Rowland Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian Cities

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  • Author : Patrick Troy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1995-09-14
  • ISBN : 9780521484374
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Australian Cities written by Patrick Troy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive 1995 exploration of urban planning and policy, and the problems facing urban Australia in the 1990s.

Book City Life

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  • Author : Seamus O'Hanlon
  • Publisher : NewSouth
  • Release : 2018-09-01
  • ISBN : 1742244262
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book City Life written by Seamus O'Hanlon and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remember when our cities and inner-cities weren’t dominated by high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes that have come with the globalisation of the Australian city since the 1970s. It tells the story of the major economic, social, cultural and demographic changes that have come with opening up of Australia in those years, with a particular focus on the two biggest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, which have been transformed. But throughout it also looks at how these changes have played out in the smaller capitals and regional centres. How does one of the most urbanised, multicultural countries in the world see itself? This book challenges received ideas about Australia and how it presents itself to the world, and how in turn many Australians perceive and understand themselves. Rather than rehashing old stereotypes about mateship, the Bush or Anzac, this book places the globalised city and its residents at the heart of new understandings of twenty-first century Australia.

Book Designing Australia s Cities

Download or read book Designing Australia s Cities written by Robert Freestone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and comprehensive, written by the current President of the International Planning History Society, this volume provides readers with a highly visual account of historical, contemporary and international projects. Looking at the ways in which the City Beautiful movement influenced the design and development of Australian cities, this pioneering national study surveys the ruling ideas, influences, outcomes and enduring legacies of the early artistic turn in Australian urban design. With the return of the American City Beautiful movement to the forefront of urban design, Designing Australia’s Cities is a relevant account of the ways in which this movement influenced and shaped Australian city design, but more importantly sheds light on a planning culture that stretches far beyond Australia and is of increasing relevance worldwide today. Laying bare an important design and reform movement, whose under-appreciated legacy is clearly evident in urban landscapes today, this book is ideal for students of planning, architecture, urban design and the history of planning.

Book Contemporary Issues in Australian Urban and Regional Planning

Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Australian Urban and Regional Planning written by Julie Brunner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Issues in Australian Urban and Regional Planning looks at a wide range of planning issues in Australia from the city to the regional scale, covering key topics in sustainable development and planning including economic, social, environmental and governance perspectives. It also covers issues of climate change, population and urbanization trends, economic competitiveness and the Quadruple Bottom Line (QBL) Sustainability agenda. The book is organized around three key elements: Pressures and Principles of development and planning for sustainability Planning Practice and Processes focused on essential topics including cities, regions, rural areas, and social and environmental issues and Future Processes and Prospects for planning practice and education covering the fundamental issues of assessing sustainability, managing risk, effective participation and evolving approaches to planning education. Contemporary Issues in Australian Urban and Regional Planning is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners of planning and related fields and provides a critical perspective on current issues in evolving natural and socio-economic contexts in Australian planning.

Book The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning written by Neil Sipe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is planning in twenty-first-century Australia? What are the key challenges that confront planning? What does planning scholarship reveal about the state of planning practice in meeting the needs of urban and regional Australians? The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning includes 27 chapters that answer these and many other questions that confront planners working in urban and regional areas in twenty-first-century Australia. It provides a single source for cutting edge thinking and research across a broad range of the most important topics in urban and regional planning. Divided into six parts, this handbook explores: contexts of urban and regional planning in Australia critical debates in Australian planning planning policy climate change, disaster risk and environmental management engaging and taking planning action planning education and research This handbook is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in urban planning, built environment, urban studies and public policy as well as academics and practitioners across Australia and internationally.

Book A Research Agenda for Cities

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Cities written by John Rennie Short and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This book provides a critical assessment of key areas of urban scholarship. In twelve stimulating chapters, expert contributors examine a range of important pressing topics from sustainability and gentrification to feminist interventions and globalization to security and food issues. Six more regionally informed expert reviews examine recent urban research in sub-Saharan Africa, South America, East Asia, the Middle East, Australia and Eastern Europe. The chapters provide polemical assessments and signposts for future research. The book will be an indispensable and accessible guide to urban research across the globe.

Book Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities

Download or read book Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities written by Phil McManus and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how Australian cities are becoming unsustainable and suggests possibilities for future actions that move us towards sustainability. Chapters on population and demography, air quality, water quality, water availability, transport and biodiversity include many new ideas to make our cities more sustainable.

Book Hugh Stretton

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  • Author : Graeme Davison
  • Publisher : Black Inc.
  • Release : 2018-09-17
  • ISBN : 1743820615
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Hugh Stretton written by Graeme Davison and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A public intellectual known for his deeply humane approach to social and urban issues, Hugh Stretton’s thinking has influenced Australian public debates for many decades. Fundamentally, Stretton wanted to make Australia fairer. His book The Political Sciences was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a work of near genius. His Ideas for Australian Cities was a groundbreaking intervention in urban studies and progressive thinking on social reform. This collection of Stretton’s writing, compiled by Australia’s leading urban historian, Graeme Davison, includes highlights from these and a wide range of other works, offering a definitive selection on history and politics, urban planning, and social and economic development. Whether criticising Paul Keating or defending life in the suburbs, Stretton was an eloquent original. Robert Manne writes that Hugh Stretton may have been Australia's most distinguished post-war social scientist. With great intelligence and subtlety, Hugh’s lifelong thinking offers an alternative to the neoliberal orthodoxy that took hold in the Anglophone world from the early 1980s and which, since the global financial crisis, has begun to lose its grip. The time is ripe for a collection.

Book Australia s Unintended Cities

Download or read book Australia s Unintended Cities written by Richard Tomlinson and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s Unintended Cities identifies and researches housing and housing-related urban outcomes that are unintended consequences of other policies, the structure of incentives and disincentives for the housing market, and governance arrangements for metropolitan areas and planning and service delivery. It is argued that unintended consequences have a greater impact on the housing market and Australia’s cities and their future than policies directly concerned with housing, urban policy and metropolitan strategic planning. The book will inform policy makers, including government officials, consultants and politicians. It will also be used by academics and students in various areas of urban policy, such as housing and urban planning, as well as environment, public policy and economics.

Book Harvest of the Suburbs

Download or read book Harvest of the Suburbs written by Andrea Gaynor and published by ISBS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on sources ranging from gardening books and magazines to statistics and oral history, Harvest of the suburbs challenges some widespread myths about food production in Australian cities, and traces the reasons for its enduring popularity. It describes changing attitudes and techniques, and explores the relationship between food production and a range of contemporary ideas relating to work, social organisation, gender roles, health and the body, and nature. In doing so, it provides new insights into the tension between the quest for independence and the desire for interdependence in suburban Australia." --book cover.

Book Australian Urban Planning

Download or read book Australian Urban Planning written by Brendan Gleeson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is a most welcome revival of the critical planning tradition. The authors combine a skilful mix of theory and applied analysis to reveal the complex dynamics of this exciting field. I can think of no better text on cities, governance and the role of the planner'. Associate Professor Mark Considine, University of Melbourne, co-author of Australian Politics in the Global Era'A useful book because it makes clear connections between politics and policy in general and the roles of planners. It raises serious questions on how the move to market economies conflicts with the older idea of intervention via planning and challenges the reader to rethink planning in newer contexts. The book is an excellent introduction to both urban planning theories andtheir relationship to wider political cultures.' Eva Cox, policy analyst, author of A Truly Civil SocietyNew challenges, new agendasHow should Australia's cities be managed in the new millennium? How can planning respond to the new political challenges which confront every level of government? Does planning complement or inhibit environmental sustainability? Australian Urban Planning addresses these questions by describing and analysing the various theoretical, political and institutional forces that have shaped and continue to reshape public urban planning in Australia since the Second World War.Australian Urban Planning explains the historical origins of planning and the nature of the diverse recent changes that have both reshaped and threatened its original purposes. It presents planning as a form of urban governance in which spatial regulation reflects such competing claims as economic growth, social justice, global economic transformation and ecological sustainability.Australian Urban Planning consists of three parts. The first part presents a rich account of what has happened to Australian cities and their management over the last two decades. The second surveys the most significant ideas that have informed planning theory over that period and demonstrated the many impacts those ideas have had. The final part sets an agenda for the future of urban governance.