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City Dreamers - The Urban Imagination in Australia by Graeme Davison
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
I became an urban historian because I believed that our cities deserved more of our curiosity and idealism. City Dreamers restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime’s work, Graeme Davison views Australian history, f ...Show more
Hugh Stretton - Selected Writings by Graeme Davison
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
His book The Political Sciences was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as 'a work of near genius.' His Ideas for Australian Cities was a groundbreaking intervention in urban studies and progressive thinking on social reform. This collection of Stretton's writing, compiled by Australia's leading urb ...Show more
My Grandfather's Clock: Four Centuries of a British-Australian Family by Graeme Davison
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography
British Australia- a search for family. A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Bir ...Show more
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities by Graeme Davison; Renate Howe; David Nichols
$34.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs | Series: Australian Studies
In the 1960s and 70s, Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval which left them changed forever. People from all walks of life who valued their suburbs - places like Balmain, Battery Point, Carlton, Indooropilly, North Adelaide, or Subiaco - resisted large-scale development projects for freeways, ...Show more
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