City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia

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ISBN-10:

1742234690

ISBN-13:

9781742234694

Author(s): Davison, Graeme
Released: Jan 01, 2017
Publisher: NewSouth
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
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Description:

In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime’s work, Davison views Australian history, from 1788 to the present day, through the eyes of city dreamers – such as Henry Lawson, Charles Bean and Hugh Stretton – and others who have helped make the cities we inhabit. Davison looks at significant individuals or groups that he calls snobs, slummers, pessimists, exodists, suburbans and anti-suburbans – and argues that there’s a particular twist to the ways in which Australians think about cities. And the ways we live in them.












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