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1 comments about Civilising the city: A history of Melbourne's public gardens.
- If you're interested in the history of public parks, 19th century landscape design, the social history of public spaces, or Australian cities, this should be in your collection.
The public gardens that (nearly) surround Melbourne's CBD form a collection of landscapes that would be unimaginable in most cities. Like Adelaide, some cities have more extensive greenbelts but few have such large areas that can, fairly, be described as `gardens'. In fewer still were these developed from the start as public places. CIVILISING THE CITY traces the history of these gardens in two main sections. The first describes collective influences - designers and other individuals as well as local political, cultural and social trends. The second, based around a fabulous collection of historical photos, provides a history of each garden starting in the first decade after the Victorian gold rush (1851), continuing through Melbourne's boom years of the 1880s and the era of Federation (1901) when it was the capital of Australia, and the inter-wars period. Pleasant and popular though these gardens are, and although they feature a few inspired spaces, you wouldn't look to any of them as masterpieces of landscape architecture. However, when you consider them as contemporaries of Olmsted's Central Park in NYC - a sort of alternative parallel universe of landscapes - it makes a fascinating study in how subtleties of culture, climate and individuals are reflected in design. Whitehead has produced a readable and engaging narrative that is also an authoritative and informative history based on primary sources. Although it featured on the best seller list for several weeks in The Age (Melbourne), the book is out of print. If you're interested in other aspects of Australian garden or landscape history, Whitehead also edited PLANTING THE NATION, a similarly readable collection of essays on landscapes around the period of Australian Federation published by the Australian Garden History Society (2001). The recent encyclopedic OXFORD COMPANION TO AUSTRALIAN GARDENS is also worth a look.
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