Tag: Endangered Plant Community

Despina’s story, fond memories of living in Campbelltown
20th century · Aesthetics · Belonging · Campbelltown · Community · Community Engagement · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Historical consciousness · History of a house · Hope and loss · House history · Housing · Local History · Local Studies · Lost Campbelltown · Memory · Myths · Place making · Sense of place · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urbanism

Despina’s story, fond memories of living in Campbelltown

camdenhistorynotes

A former resident of Campbelltown, Despina Maddalena, has recalled her time living in Campbelltown in the early 2000s. She has fond memories and is quick to defend the city from stereotypes and misinformation.

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

camdenhistorynotes

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