The Australian Metropolis

The Australian Metropolis

A Planning History

by Robert Freestone, Stephen Hamnett

229 pages· 1999· ISBN 9781741763355
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Figures Tables Contributors Introduction - Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone 1 Founding cities in nineteenth-century Australia Helen Proudfoot 2 From city improvement to the city beautiful Robert Freestone 3 Towards metropolitan organisation: town planning and the garden city idea Christine Garnaut 4 From theory to practice: the inter-war years Alan Hutchings 5 A new paradigm: planning and reconstruction in the 1940s Renate Howe 6 The post-war city Ian Alexander 7 The corridor city: planning for growth in the 1960s Ian Morison 8 Administrative coordination, urban management and strategic planning in the 1970s Margo Huxley 9 The revival of metropolitan planning Michael Lennon 10 The late 1990s: competitive versus sustainable cities Stephen Hamnett Notes Index

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