Category: Town planning

Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee
Architecture · Attachment to place · Camden · Camden Council · Community identity · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Memorials · Monuments · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Tourism · Town planning · Urban growth · Urban Planning · Victorian

Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee

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Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee

Camden needs a residential heritage-style guide
Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Camden · Camden Material and Colour Guide · Camden Regional Economic Taskforce · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Edwardian · Heritage · History · Interwar · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Modernism · Place making · Sense of place · Town planning · Urban Planning · Urbanism

Camden needs a residential heritage-style guide

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Camden Needs A Residential Heritage Style Guide to provide assistance to home owners to conserve and restore their historic cottages.

Beulah and Sydney’s Urban Sprawl
Appin · Architecture · Attachment to place · Australia · British colonialism · Campbelltown · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Communications · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Curtilage · Dairying · Farming · Frontier violence · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Monuments · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Town planning · Transport · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism · Victorian

Beulah and Sydney’s Urban Sprawl

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Beulah estate, Sydney's urban sprawl and the Appin Road

Lost Campbelltown heritage
Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Campbelltown · Colonialism · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Edwardian · Entertainment · Farming · Fashion · Georgian · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Hotels · Interwar · Leisure · Local History · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Memory · Modernism · Place making · Railway · Retailing · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Streetscapes · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Tourism · Town planning · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism · Victorian

Lost Campbelltown heritage

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The lost built heritage of a country town on Sydney's urban fringe at Campbelltown

Sydney’s urban fringe: a transition zone of hope and loss
1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · Airds · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Story · Campbelltown · Elderslie · History · Hope and loss · Land releases · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Leppington · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Mount Annan · Mount Gilead · Narellan · Oran Park · Place making · Regionalism · rural-urban fringe · Ruralism · Sense of place · Storytelling · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · The Oaks · Town planning · Transition zone · Uncategorized · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Sydney’s urban fringe: a transition zone of hope and loss

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Sydney’s rural-urban fringe is a site of winners and losers. It is a landscape where dreams are fulfilled and memories are lost. The promises of land developers in master-planned suburban utopias meet the hope and expectations of newcomers.

Nepean River, more than a water view
Aesthetics · Attachment to place · British colonialism · Camden · Cobbitty · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Floods · Heritage · Historical consciousness · History · Landscape aesthetics · Leisure · Local History · Macarthur · Memory · Menangle · Myths · Nepean River · Place making · Ruralism · Second World War · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Town planning · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · War · War at home · Water

Nepean River, more than a water view

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The Nepean River and its floodplain is much more than just a water view. It is cultural and natural icon in the Sydney basin.

Democracy, Place and Local Government
Active citizenship · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden Council · Camden Story · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Heritage · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Patriotism · Place making · Sense of place · Storytelling · Town planning · urban sprawl · Volunteering

Democracy, Place and Local Government

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Local politics is a special beast and is particular, local, small fare and accessible. It is parish pump politics at its best.