City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia by Davison, Graeme

City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781742234694)

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City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia by Davison, Graeme

City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia

$35.00
City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia by Davison, Graeme

City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime's work, Davison views Australian history, from 1788 to the present day, through the eyes of city dreamers - such as Henry Lawson, Charles Bean and Hugh Stretton - and others who have helped make the cities we inhabit. Davison looks at significant individuals or groups that he calls snobs, slummers, pessimists, exodists, suburbans and anti-suburbans - and argues that there's a particular twist to the ways in which Australians think about cities. And the ways we live in them.

Author: Graeme Davison
ISBN-10: 1742234690
ISBN-13: 9781742234694
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d
By Graeme Davison
By Graeme Davison
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Graeme Davison has researched and reflected on the history of Australia's cities for about 40 years. He is Australia's best-known urban historian and a commentator on contemporary urban issues. Graeme's prize-winning books include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne and Car Wars: How the Car Won our Hearts and Conquered our Cities. He is a co-editor of the landmark Oxford Companion to Australian History.

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