41. Australia: Town Planning

  • (ef) J E M Vincent. The Australian Irrigation Colonies. London, no date [?c 1887].

  • (p) George Lewis. Village and Industrial Settlements. New South Wales, Legislative Assembly. Sydney 1893.

  • George A Taylor. Town Planning for Australia. Sydney 1914. This copy inscribed by the author: 'To John Sulman F.R.I.B.A. the first to advocate Town Planning for Australia and the first President of the first Town Planning Association in Australia - with the Authors sincere regards + pleasant memories of an acquaintance extending back 25 years. George A. Taylor May 1914'. One of the earliest published Australian works on town planning.

  • George A Taylor. Town Planning with Common Sense. Sydney 1918.

  • (p) Australian Town Planning Conference and Exhibition (advertising dodger for the Adelaide conference, 1917). No place [Adelaide] 1917.

  • Australian Town Planning Conference and Exhibition. Official Volume of Proceedings. Adelaide 1918.

  • John Sulman. Town Planning: a Sketch Outline. Sydney 1919.

  • J W Sulman. An Introduction to Town Planning in Australia. Sydney 1921.

  • Kathleen Ussher. Cities of Australia. London 1928.

  • F O Barnett, W O Burt & Frank Heath. We Must Go On. Melbourne 1940.

  • F O Barnett & W O Burt. Housing the Australian Nation. Melbourne 1942. Two copies.

  • Town & Country Planning Association of Victoria. Living in Your Community. No place or date [Melbourne c 1944 (see 1943 ref, p 33)].

  • (p) Housing, Slums, Private Enterprise and the Future. Sydney 1944. Proposals submitted to the Commonwealth Housing Commission by the Australian Communist Party.

  • The Slums are Still With Us. Melbourne 1944.

  • 'Veritas' [L H Luscombe]. Australia Replanned. Melbourne 1945.

  • Australian Planning Institute. Report of the Proceedings of the Second Australian Planning Congress. Melbourne 1952. Two copies.

  • (f) F M Taylor [ed G M Giles]. 50 Years of Town Planning. Sydney, no date [1959].

  • Sydney Maslen. Renewing Australia's Cities. No place [? Sydney] 1963.

  • John Wilkes [ed]. Australia's Cities: Chaos or Planned Growth [proceedings of the 32nd summer school, Australian Inmstitute of Political Science]. Melbourne 1966.

  • Nicholas Clark [ed]. Analysis of Urban Development [proceedinmgs of the Tewksbury Symposium]. Melbourne 1970.

  • L H Burnley [ed]. Urbanization in Australia: The Post-War Experience. Cambridge 1974.

  • Christopher Jay. Towards Urban Strategies for Australia. [AIUS publication no 75] Canberra 1978.

  • Patrick Pak-Poy, et al. Urban Strategies for Australia: First Report. [AIUS publication no 80] Canberra 1979.

  • 7th Australian Town and Country Planning Congress Hobart 25-31 August 1982 [proceedings].

  • Joint Venture for More Affordable Housing. Australian Model Code for Residential Development. Canberra 1990 [1989].

  • Green Street Joint Venture. Australian Model Code for Residential Development. 2nd ed, Canberra 1990.

  • Australia, Department of Health, Housing and Community Services. Housing Choices for a Changing Nation. Canberra 1992. In a folder with the following three items, plus loose sheets.

  • Australia, Department of Health, Housing and Community Services. Planning Implementation and Approaches [part 1 of Amcord Urban Guidelines for Urban Housing]. Canberra 1992.

  • Australia, Department of Health, Housing and Community Services. Draft Code for Urban Housing [part 2 of Amcord Urban Guidelines for Urban Housing]. Canberra 1992.

  • Australia, Department of Health, Housing and Community Services. Support Material [part 3 of Amcord Urban Guidelines for Urban Housing]. Canberra 1992.

New South Wales

  • (p) R K Harris & B J Waterhouse. Sydney's Need. Sydney 1924. Described as 'being the Second Brochure of the Sydney Regional Plan Convention'.

  • (p) New South Wales. Legislative Assembly. Report of the Housing Board on Dacey Garden Suburb, &c. Sydney 1922.

  • (p) Cumberland County Council. You and the County Plan. Sydney, no date [c1946].

  • Cumberland County Council. Zoning and Classification of Industry [Planning Bulletin no 1]. Sydney 1947.

  • (p) Cumberland County Council. Local Planning in the County of Cumberland [Planning Bulletin no 2]. Sydney 1947.

  • (f) Cumberland County Council. The Planning Scheme for the County of Cumberland. Sydney 1948.

  • Herman Jenkins & Joseph Fergus. Town and Country Planning in New South Wales. Sydney 1953.

  • Denis Winston. Sydney's Great Experiment. The Progress of the Cumberland County Plan. Sydney 1957.

  • New South Wales, State Planning Authorit. Sydney Region: Growth and Change. Sydney 1967.

  • Urban Systems Corporation Pty. Limited. City of Sydney Strategic Plan. Sydney 1971.

Canberra & federal capital proposals

  • (p) E W Cole. Greater Melbourne and the Federal Capital. Melbourne c 1898. The funny picture book man's campaign for the adoption of Melbourne, or failing that Albury-Wodonga, as the Federal capital.

  • Proceedings of the Congress of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors, and others interested in the Building of the Federal Capital of Australia, held in Melbourne, in May, 1901. Melbourne 1901.

  • New South Wales. Proposed Federal Capital Sites. Sydney 1902 (with linen map) .

  • Federal Capital Pioneer Magazine, new series, vol I, nos 1 (15 October 1926), 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 (May-June 1927).

  • Frederick Watson. A Brief History of Canberra. Canberra 1927.

  • Warren Denning. Capital City. Canberra 1945 [1938]. A bibliographic marvel in that the date of this second edition is given as 1944, whereas its preface (which appears unusually at the back of the book) is dated January 1945.

  • H L White [ed]. Canberra: a National Capital. Sydney 1954.

  • National Capital Development Commission. Planning Survey Report of Canberra City District. Canberra 1959.

  • National Capital Development Commission. The Future Canberra. Canberra 1965.

Perth

  • Report of the Metropolitan Town Planning Commission, Perth, Western Australia. Perth 1931.

  • Gordon Stephenson & J A Hepburn. Plan for the Metropolitan Region Perth and Fremantle. Perth 1955.

  • Paul Ritter & Edward Pagram. Faces of Perth. Kelmscott [Western Australia] 1967.

  • Paul Ritter. City Planning Perth, 1965-1967. Kelmscott [Western Australia] 1968. Inscribed by Ritter 'For lovely Christine ...' - apparently Christine Unsworth, a member of his team.

South Australia

  • (p) C C Reade. Planning and Development of Towns and Cities in South Australia. Adelaide 1919.  

  • Norman Crawford et al. A Township starts to Live. Adelaide 1945 [1944].

Hobart

  • F C Cook. City of Hobart Plan. Hobart 1945.

See also:

(sec 27) R.I.B.A. Town Planning Conference 1910 (includes John Sulman, "The Federal Capital of Australia", pp 604-610) (sec 33) Garnsey, Report of the City Engineer and Surveyor [Sydney]. (sec 39) The Salon, 1912, for competition entries for Canberra Gawler, A Roof Over My Head Boyd, Australia's Home (sec 41) Elder, William Light

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