City dreamers : the urban imagination in Australia /
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Sydney, N.S.W. :
NewSouth Publishing,
2016.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The View from the Palisade Hotel; Chapter One: Artists The Panorama and the Printing Press; Chapter Two: Scientists Stanley Jevons' Survey of Sydney; Chapter Three: Slummers The Colonial City from Below; Chapter Four: Snobs The Colonial City from Above; Chapter Five: Suburbanites The Search for Space; Chapter Six: Anti-Suburbans The War on Sprawl; Chapter Seven: Poets The City and the Bush; Chapter Eight: Pessimists Saving the City Child; Chapter Nine: Exodists The Drift to the City; Chapter Ten: Motorists The Tide of Automobilism.
- Chapter Eleven: Moderns Driving Forwards, Looking BackwardsChapter Twelve: Planners Hugh Stretton's Ideas for Australian Cities; Chapter Thirteen: Nationalists Canberra and National Identity; Chapter Fourteen: Cosmopolitans The European City in Australia; Afterword: City Dreaming; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.