Western Towns and Buildings edited by Margaret Pitt Morrison and John White

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Light foxing to top foredge. Interior and binding are excellent. Dust jacket has light creasing at top edge near spine. Some sunning of dust jacket. It is scarce and highly collectible.

The history of architecture and urban development of Western Australia. The story is that of the people who came after 1829 to what was to them a wilderness, and how they translated the mature building tradition of their homeland to a new environment with unfamiliar materials.

Contents:

1. Settlement and development: the historical context by Margaret Pitt Morison
2. Building in Western Australia 1829-1850 by John White
3. Building in Western Australia 1851-1880 by Robin McK. Campbell
4. Building in Western Australia 1881-1939 by John White
   
5. Building in Western Australia 1940-1979 by Ian Molyneux
   
6. The urban house during the Nineteen Century by John White
   
7. Farmhouses by Ian Molyneux and John White
   
8. Architectural styles and their sources in Western Australia since 1831 by Michael Upton Beasley
   
9. Town planning by Max Poole
   
10. Country towns by Margaret Pitt Morison
    
11. The metropolitan region by John Georgiou
    
12. Growth and change in Central Perth by Ian Hocking
    
13. Conservation by Ronald Bodycoat & Robin McK. Campbell

Includes bibliography and index.

This book is part of the Sesquicentenary Celebration Series which focuses on different themes in Western Australian history.