1st Edition
Designing Australia's Cities Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900�1930
By Robert Freestone
Copyright 2007
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. America and the World 3. The Australian Scene 4. The Federal Capital 5. City Plans 6. Civic Centres 7. Public Spaces 8. The Campus Beautiful 9. Parks, Parkways and the Street Beautiful 10. The Everyday Landscape 11. New Themes, Old Traditions
Biography
Robert Freestone is Professor of Planning and Urban Development in the Faculty of the Built Environment at the University of New South Wales.
