Cities and memory: a history of the role of memorials in urban design from the Renaissance to Canberra

Q Stevens - Planning Perspectives, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In recent decades, there has been a significant revival of interest and growth in numbers of
public memorials–sculptures and structures in public spaces that convey information and …

Stephenson and metropolitan planning in Perth

J Gregory - Town Planning Review, 2012 - liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
In the 1950s Perth, capital city of Western Australia, stood on the cusp of major development
which would transform it from a nineteenth-century European city to a modern commercial …

The literary destruction of Canberra: utopia, apocalypse and the national capital.

R Smith - Australian Literary Studies, 2009 - search.ebscohost.com
This article examines a number of fictional narratives in which the city of Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory, is literally or symbolically destroyed. It seeks to understand the …

Canberra's gardens, parks, and landscape: A bibliographical essay

R Freestone - Australian Garden History, 2013 - search.informit.org
Canberra's gardens, parks, and landscape: A bibliographical essay Page 1
Australian Garden History, 24 (4), April/May/June 2013 5 Canberra’s gardens, parks, and …

The 1901 Australian Federal Capital Congress

R Freestone, D Nichols - Planning Perspectives, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
National and international conferences were a vital force for advancing the theory and
practice of modern town planning from the early twentieth century. A conference held in …

Committed cities and the problems of governance: Micromanaging the unmanageable

J Wanna, J Craik - Developing living cities: From analysis to …, 2010 - books.google.com
This chapter explores the conundrum facing those wishing to plan and regulate the
development and management of cities and how they grow. Cities may be governed by a …