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

TBM9781742234694
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ISBN: 9781742234694
Author: Graeme Davison
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: NewSouth
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2016
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library book with wear to book corners and edges. External stickers have been removed. Book is clean and binding is still very good.

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.

This extraordinary book excavates the cultural history of the Australian city by focusing on 'dreamers', those who battle to make and re-make our cities. It reminds us that for most of us the city is home, and it is there that we find belonging. (publisher blurb)

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