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Shooting Through
Trams, popularly known as toastracks, boneshakers, juggernauts and rattletraps, were a central part of Sydney life for 100 years. Shooting through: Sydney by tram explores the history and demise of Sydney's trams from the first horse drawn trams in Pitt Street in 1861 to the last electric tram in 1961. Generations of Sydneysiders travelled by tram to school, work and leisure places. Beautifully illustrated with photographs, artworks and iconic tram objects, this publication provides an illustrated and interpretative history of Sydney's once extensive tramway network
Talking about Sydney
A focus on three critical and interrelated issues: population growth and change, community development, and cultural innovation. The book brings together stakeholders from across the spectrum--leading public intellectuals, commentators, practitioners and academics--in a lively exchange of views that cannot be ignored. All contributors share an interest in understanding Sydney and making it a better place to live and work. They include Elizabeth Farrelly (Sydney Morning Herald) and Bernard Salt (The Australian).
Debating the City
What makes a city worth living in? Leading architects, art and social historians, geographers, shopping mall designers and cultural planners explore a range of issues about our urban environment in DEBATING THE CITY.
Painting The Rocks
In 1900 the proposed destruction of waterfront areas in Sydney provided inspiration for a group of artists to the capture 'Old Sydney' before it disappeared.
Homes in the Sky
"Produced to coincide with the exhibition Homes in the Sky held at the Museum of Sydney from 12 May to 26 August 2007"--T.p. verso.
Sydney Then and Now
Sydney's European history covers scarely more than 200 years, however it wasome to a number of Aboriginal clans for 40,000 years before that. There is aomplex story of interaction between the urban and the natural. A uniqueense of place has evolved over time with fragments of the past intertwinedith the bold and the new. Most of the historic photos in this book catchydney scenes of about a century ago, in the decades just before and afterhe Federation of the British colonies to form Australia. Sydney'sevelopment mirrored Australia's growth in confidence and affluence,roducing an impressive display of public architecture and civic spaces.
Sydney
The newest title in the Then and Now series explores the world's #1 travel destination-as it was a century ago and as it is today. Sydney, Australia, is one of the world's most beautiful harbour cities: a combination of Victorian-era landmarks, contemporary skyscrapers and natural scenery. Side-by-side photos reveal the city's growth over the past century.
Sydney Then and Now®
Sydney is graced with natural beauty - a vast and ancient flooded valley, it is a waterscape of beaches, rivers, bays and harbour with Sandstone beneath and eucalyptus around its shores. Sydney Then and Now captures the growth and evolution of the city in this remarkable setting through the last century and highlights both what has dramatically changed and what has remained resolutely the same.Many of the photos are taken from Sydney at Federation, when the city had just overtaken Melbourne as Australia's most populous city. The photos of today's Sydney are a continuation of that story, of a city still booming, the foundations still there, but now congested with skyscrapers and transport con...
Space, the City and Social Theory
Space, the City and Social Theory offers a clear and critical account of key approaches to cities and urban space within social theory and analysis. It explores the relation of the social and the spatial in the context of critical urban themes: community and anonymity; social difference and spatial divisions; politics and public space; gentrification and urban renewal; gender and sexuality; subjectivity and space; experience and everyday practice in the city. The text adopts an international and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on a range of debates on cities and urban life. It brings together classic perspectives in urban sociology and social theory with the analysis of contemporary urba...
