Town Planning for Australia

ISBN-13: 9781138372580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 182 str.

UK) George Taylor (University of Nottingham

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George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in style, it sets out a robust vision for a specificallyAustralian approach to planning and development of towns in a young country.Taylor was a controversial figure, a political activist and publisherwhobrought the NSW Town Planning Association into existence and played a key role in publishing and promoting planning into the 1920s.His wife Florence Taylor was the first female qualified architect and trained engineer in Australia, and an important figure in the history ofplanning and publishing in Australia.