Designing Australia's cities : culture, commerce, and the city beautiful, 1900-1930 / Robert Freestone.

Main entry:

Freestone, Robert.

Title & Author:

Designing Australia's cities : culture, commerce, and the city beautiful, 1900-1930 / Robert Freestone.

Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

viii, 325 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.

Series:

Planning, history and environment series

Notes:
"A UNSW Press book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-314) and index.
Introduction -- America and the world -- The Australian scene -- The federal capital -- City plans -- Civic centres -- Public spaces -- The campus beautiful -- Parks, parkways, and the street beautiful -- The everyday landscape -- New themes, old traditions.

Summary:

"From the last years of the 19th century through the first three decades of the 20th century Australian architects, planners, and urban reformers, influenced by the City Beautiful movement, became aware of the need to make the country's cities not just efficient, productive and safe but also works of art. Designing Australia's Cities investigates and celebrates the ideas, influences, outcomes and enduring legacies of this artistic turn in Australian urban design, and sets Australian planning and urban development within a new international context." "Including 120 illustrations, this book provides the first comprehensive history of an important design and reform movement that helped shape Australia's cities, and whose under-appreciated legacy is clearly evident in urban landscapes today."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN:

9780415424219 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415424216 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415424226 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415424224 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780868408118
0868408115

Subject:

City planning Australia History.
Cities and towns Australia History.
Urban beautification Australia History.
Landscape architecture Australia History.
Urbanisme Australie Histoire.
Villes Australie Histoire.
Architecture du paysage Australie Histoire.
Villes Embellissement Australie Histoire.
Urban beautification
Cities and towns
City planning
Australia

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Planning, history, and the environment series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256522
Call No.: BIB 186905
Status: Available

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