Suburban Backlash: The Battle for the World's Most Livable City by Miles Lewis

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly to front cover right corners, now protected with book tape. Marks on foredges and half title page. Body text and binding are still very good.

This book sets out to establish how Melbourne suburbs were established and developed, how the detached house on its own block became the norm and how the rival life-mode, that of the flat, made its impact. It critically examines town-planning assumptions and considers the relationship between government and citizens in the planning sphere.

As their neighbourhoods are blitzed by indiscriminate development, bewildered suburbanites ask: How did we end up in this mess?

With historical insight and characteristic candour, Miles Lewis shows how planners and politicians have ignored the aspirations of many Melburnians.