Robert Freestone / Stephen Hamnett (eds.)

Australian Metropolis

A Planning History
Herausgeber: Freestone, Robert; Hamnett, Stephen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Australian Metropolis provides a single-volume introduction to the development of urbanplanning. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780419258100
• ISBN-10: 0419258108
• Artikelnr.: 20973587

Autorenporträt

Stephen Hamnett, Robert Freestone

Inhaltsangabe

Figures. Tables. Contributors. Introduction. 1: Founding Cities in
Nineteenth-Century Australia. 2: From City Improvement to the City
Beautiful. 3: Towards Metropolitan Organisation: Town Planning and Garden
City Idea. 4: From Theory to Practice: The Inter-War Years. 5: A New
Paradigm: Planning and Reconstruction in the 1940s. 6: The Post-War City.
7: The Corridor City: Planning for Growth in the 1960s 8: Administrative
Coordination, Urban Management and Strategic Planning in the 1970s. 9: The
Revival of Metropolitan Planning. 10: The Late 1990s: Competitive Versus
Sustainable Cities. Notes. Index.