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PENRITH CEMETERIES
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Penrith
The first colonial travellers to inland Australia took the western road through the plains round Sydney. At the foot of the towering Blue Mountains, where they crossed the Nepean River, simple buildings of the convict era formed the tiny township of Penrith. On that splendid natural stage the story told in this book unfolds. Lorraine Stacker traces events and developments that have made Penrith the mature city it is today. In chronological order, with a wealth of detail, her book studies land use and settlement, civic amenities, local government and changing patterns of urban growth. It looks beyond Penrith, to all areas now within the City's municipal boundaries--reviewing the local histories of places such as St. Marys and Emu Plains, that once progressed independently. Since 1988--when the history of Penrith's formative epoch was published in Darug and Dungaree--readers have longed for a book that would carry the story forward. This new book takes it into the 21st century, and includes an index to both volumes.
Smart and Sustainable Built Environments
This book brings together a group of international specialists to explore the current state of the art and future potential for encouraging, developing and implementing smart and sustainable built environment strategies. It covers a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from technological advancement, through the assessment of past experiences, to communication and education requirements and future strategies. provides a snapshot of current methods and technologies for developing smart and sustainable built environment strategies over 30 fully refereed chapters from international experts addresses the particular requirements and problems of difference areas and climatic regions
Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Planning
This book is in part a response to the attempts of governments to address increasing concerns over such environmental issues as the impact of climate change; carbon emissions; pressures from overpopulation of cities; coal seam gas extraction and depleting natural resources. The authors have developed a Sustainable Communities Framework (SCF) which incorporates social-cultural, environmental and economic sustainability principles in the process of urban planning. The authors propose a five-step SCF built on an application of sustainability tables. The book examines a wide range of urban planning practices utilizing sustainability criteria, outlining both qualitative and quantitative tools. Se...
Sustainable Neighbourhoods in Australia
This book examines the planning and implementation of policies to create sustainable neighborhoods, using as a case study the City of Sydney. The authors ask whether many past planning and development practices were appropriate to the ways that communities then functioned, and what lessons we have learned. The aim is to illustrate the many variations within a city and from neighborhood to neighborhood regarding renewal (rehabilitation), redevelopment (replacement) and new development. Case study examples of nine City of Sydney neighborhoods note the different histories of planning and development in each. Features of the studies include literature searches, field work (with photography), and...
Urban Agriculture
Most of us live in cities. These are becoming increasingly complex and removed from broad-scale agriculture. Yet within cities there are many examples of greenspaces and local food production that bring multiple benefits that often go unnoticed. This book presents a collection of the latest thinking on the multiple dimensions of sustainable greenspace and food production within cities. It describes the diversity of 'urban agriculture' and seeks a balanced representation between the biophysical and the social. It deals with urban agriculture across scales - from indoor plants to farm-scale filtration of greywater. A range of examples and initiatives from both developed and developing countries is described and evaluated.
Quirky Cooking
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