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Life Blood, public art at the Australia Botanic Gardens

On the forecourt of the Herbarium at the Australian Botanic Garden is an artwork celebrating the heritage of Indigenous culture called Life Blood.

Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Business · Cultural Heritage · Cumberland Plain · Dharawal · Entertainment · House history · Lifestyle · Living History · Media · Media History · Photography · Retailing · Sense of place · Shopping · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Sydney · Uncategorized · Wollondilly Shire Council

The West Journal

A new lifestyle magazine, The West Journal, has appeared in the local area and makes an interesting addition to the media landscape.

Aesthetics · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Argyle Street · Attachment to place · Built heritag · Camden · Camden Airfield · Camden Show · Camden Story · Camden Town Centre · Churches · Cobbitty · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Community identity · Country town · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · Cumberland Plain · Farming · Floods · Heritage · History · Landscape · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur Park · Onslow Park · Place making · Placemaking · Railway · Sense of place · Storytelling · Tourism

Camden, the best preserved country town on the Cumberland Plain

The historic town of Camden is hailed by architect Hector Abrahams as the best-preserved country town on the Cumberland Plain. Established in 1840, it offers a glimpse of Victorian and early 20th-century charm. Visitors can explore its heritage precinct, rural landscapes, historic villages, and even relive the town's aviation history.

Attachment to place · Camden · Community identity · Cumberland Plain · Cumberland Plain Woodland · Ecology · Gardening · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Native flora · Place making · Placemaking · Plants · Sense of place · Studley Park · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Spiked Rice-flower – a little plant causing a big fuss

A little plant causing a big fuss in the Camden area is the Spiked Rice Flower - Pimelea Spicata - adjacent to a proposed redevelopment of Studley Park House