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No little plans: Canberra, Via Chicago, Washington DC, The Philippines, and onwards

Christine Ellem1•
La Trobe University1
05 Aug 2014-Thesis Eleven (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 123, Iss: 1, pp 106-122
TL;DR: A number of important city-building projects across the early 20th century drew on the utopian ideas of the City Beautiful movement, an architectural response to the poverty and social dysfunctions generated by urban industrialism.
Abstract: A number of important city-building projects across the early 20th century drew on the utopian ideas of the City Beautiful movement, an architectural response to the poverty and social dysfunctions generated by urban industrialism. This was also a moment in which the imperial connections and imperial ambitions of settler capitalist societies coincided with national projects. The curious co-existence of these ambitions was embodied in the capital city projects of the time – simultaneously imperial and national, and developed through an exchange of utopian ideas about architecture, planning, nature and modernity. Of these, Canberra is exemplary; the most fully realized. A hundred years later, its story is still largely told in narrow terms, as a parochial tale of incomplete nationalism. Shifting focus to explore Canberra in relation to other capital city building projects during the period offers a better understanding of the complex overlays of imperialism, nationalism and regionalism at play in new world ...
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Cities Of Tomorrow An Intellectual History Of Urban Planning And Design In The Twentieth Century

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Utopia and anti-Utopia in modern times

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TL;DR: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world as discussed by the authors, and the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer.
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Replenishing the Earth

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James Belich
25 Jun 2009

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"No little plans: Canberra, Via Chic..." refers background in this paper

  • ...As Belich (2009) suggests, America’s settlement history progressed from nationalism (borne out of a colonial revolution) to imperial mission, of destiny....

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  • ...Canberra was conceived during a wave of capital city building which occurred across the settler capitalist ‘newlands’ of the Anglophone world in the early 20th century (Belich 2009; Beilharz 2005)....

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Utopia and anti-utopia in modern times

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Krishan Kumar
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: Utopianism - ancient and modern utopia in 19th-century Europe and anti-utopianism in America as discussed by the authors, the shadow of utopia as socialism - Edward Bellamy and "Looking Backward" science and utopia - H.G. Wells and "A Modern Utopia" science, Aldous Huxley and "Brave New World" politics, George Orwell and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" the utopia of "behavioural engineering" - B.F. Skinner and "Walden Two".
Abstract: Utopianism - ancient and modern utopia in 19th-century Europe utopia in 19th-century America anti-utopia, shadow of utopia utopia as socialism - Edward Bellamy and "Looking Backward" science and utopia - H.G. Wells and "A Modern Utopia" science and anti-utopia - Aldous Huxley and "Brave New World" politics and anti-utopia - George Orwell and "Nineteen Eighty-Four" the utopia of "behavioural engineering" - B.F. Skinner and "Walden Two".

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A concise history of Australia

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Stuart Macintyre1•
University of Melbourne1
28 Jan 2000
TL;DR: This paper revisited A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present, integrating new scholarship with the historical record, bringing together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia.
Abstract: Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, Macintyre's Australia remains one of achievements and failures. So too the future possibilities are deeply rooted in the country's past endeavours. A Concise History of Australia is an invitation to examine this past.

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Cities Of Tomorrow An Intellectual History Of Urban Planning And Design In The Twentieth Century

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Christine Nadel
01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: The cities of tomorrow an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century as discussed by the authors is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly.
Abstract: Thank you for downloading cities of tomorrow an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look numerous times for their favorite readings like this cities of tomorrow an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century, but end up in malicious downloads. Rather than enjoying a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some infectious bugs inside their computer. cities of tomorrow an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly. Our digital library saves in multiple locations, allowing you to get the most less latency time to download any of our books like this one. Kindly say, the cities of tomorrow an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century is universally compatible with any devices to read.

154 citations

"No little plans: Canberra, Via Chic..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Until the 1950s, Canberra was laughed off as a sheep paddock and left to languish, incomplete and unloved, before its rescue by Menzies and the National Capital Development Commission (NCDC), whose efforts saw it through to a more fully realized capital (Hall 2002a: 208)....

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  • ...This was the City Beautiful as undiluted imperialism; a colonizing project entirely disconnected from Old Delhi and the concerns of the Indian populace, aside from the ambition to impose a sense of British majesty and political acquiescence upon them (Hall 2002a: 199)....

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  • ...And yet New Delhi itself remained a British capital for only 16 years before its monuments were given over to a newly independent Indian republic, which appropriated the Viceroy’s house as Rashtrapati Bhavan, and Kingsway and Queensway as Rajpath and Janpath (Hall 2002a: 198)....

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  • ...…plan and the L’Enfant plan for Washington DC, and the ‘predominant notes of American Beaux Arts planning were stuck’: the wide open spaces, low density zone, gardens, the cross-axial geometry of the street layout and the central focus on symbols of governance (Hall 2002a: 201; Irving 1981: 88)....

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  • ...How to imagine it, how to reinvent it, how to live in it and what it should symbolize became key concerns for architects and urban planners (Hall 2002b: 11–17)....

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Journal Article•DOI•
Utopia and anti-Utopia in modern times

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Timothy W. Luke1•
Virginia Tech1
01 Nov 1994-History of European Ideas

97 citations

"No little plans: Canberra, Via Chic..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…a global world system (however ambivalent and tentative that part of his vision was) in Bellamy’s Looking Backward; and more stridently as a fully integrated cosmopolis in the globalized utopia of Joseph Fraser’s Melbourne and Mars (Fraser 1889; Kumar 1987: 6; Beilharz and Ellem 2009: 13–27)....

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  • ...…Morris and abandon the city altogether as ‘the worst possible form of dwelling-place’ or to side with Edward Bellamy and imagine it differently, perhaps by rescuing nature in the form of the garden, to civilize the experience of urban life (Kumar 1987: 33–7; Morris 1889: 194–5; Beilharz 2004)....

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