Adelaide: Nature of a City
Contributions from 80 authors
Editors: Christopher B. Daniels and Catherine J. Tait
Foreword: Tim Flannery
609 pages
Awards:
- Whitley Medal, 2006
- PIA Planning Scholarship: Research and Teaching, 2008
- AILA SA Presidents Award, 2009
If you would like to buy this book, see our books homepage: click here
Urban environments are complex, dynamic, rapidly changing systems controlled by humans. Despite living in cities for more than 4,000 years, we know very little about how cities function as ecological entities. This book tracks the changes to the biological communities, to the plants and animals, and to the structure and nature of the built environment of the city of Adelaide from its inception in 1836 to the present day and predicts the future through to 2036.
Adelaide is the capital of South Australia, the central and southern state of Australia. Adelaide was established as a free colony in 1836 and is today a large vibrant city separated by around 800 kilometres from the nearest major city (Melbourne). As a separate isolated city, established by literate, well-educated settlers who collected and retained a magnificent amount of information on the pre-European environment and recent historical change, Adelaide is a wonderful model to understand the dynamic changes that have occurred in a large urban community.
This book is a deep but easy-to-read analysis of the biological life that forms the basis of the city of Adelaide. With contributions by over 80 South Australian scientists, architects, engineers, town planners, agriculturalists, social scientists, geographers, historians and experts from other disciplines, this book describes and analyses the local environment and predicts the future in terms of species loss and gain, biodiversity change and community structure. The book contains over 130 boxes that are vignettes on interesting topics relating to the chapters, and which make fascinating reading in themselves.
Buy this book and see other items available from the Barbara Hardy Institute...
If you have any questions about purchasing, please contact Philip Roetman at UniSA, click here...