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‘Fibro Majestic’: A Celebration of Mid-Century Housing at Campbelltown Arts Centre by Catherine O’Donnell

The "Fibro Majestic" exhibition at Campbelltown Arts Centre celebrates the historical significance of fibro housing in Australia, highlighting its role in post-war society. Artist Catherine O'Donnell's work reflects on the nostalgia, memories, and social contexts surrounding these humble structures, transforming perceptions of an architecture once deemed unattractive.

1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · Advertising · Attachment to place · Built heritag · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Elderslie · Heritage · History · Land releases · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Place making · rural-urban fringe · Storytelling · Uncategorized · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Elderslie land releases 2000-2023, the background and fancy estate names

The Elderslie area has been identified in Sydney’s strategic growth plans for land releases on the metropolitan rural-urban fringe. It is a valuable exercise to see how and when Elderslie was identified as part of Sydney’s planning framework.

1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · 20th century · Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Brutalist Architecture · Built heritag · Campbelltown · Campbelltown Council · Campbelltown Modernism · Campbelltown Municipal Council · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Engineering Heritage · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memory · Mid-century modernism · Modernism · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Storytelling · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Town planning · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Campbelltown City Council office extension 1982 – an example of mid-century modernism

In 1982 Campbelltown City Council had the official opening for the brutalist administration building. Combined with the adjacent 1964 modernist office building they are an outstanding example of mid-century modernism in the Macarthur region

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Goulburn’s Belmore Park, a space of memories and monuments

In central Goulburn is an urban park with formal paths and gardens that dates back Victorian times. The park has evolved to become a landscape of monuments and memorials.