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Full Title

Designing Australia\'s Cities Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful, 1900�1930 1st Edition

Author(s)

Robert Freestone

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781000158229, 9780415424219, 9781003060840, 9780415424226, 9781000115420, 9781000133370

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.