New leaf
With
Conscious Purpose: A History of Town Planning In South Australia
(Second Edition)
Hutchings, A (editor)
Planning Institute of Australia (SA)
State Housing Minister Jay Weatherill launched the new edition of the book With Conscious Purpose: A History of Town Planning in South Australia at a function held in November in UniSA’s Hawke Building.
The first edition of this important work was launched by former Premier Don Dunstan in 1986. This second edition has been prepared under the editorial guidance of Alan Hutchings, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Planning in the School of Natural and Built Environments. It includes a new chapter covering the years since 1986, written by UniSA Professor of Regional and Urban Planning Steve Hamnett and Alan Hutchings, as well as new material contributed by some of the original authors and also by Dr Christine Garnaut, Senior Research Fellow in the Louis Laybourne Smith School of Architecture and Design.
With
Conscious Purpose - a History of Town Planning in South Australia
traces the organised and systematic development of settlements in
the State, through the rise of suburbia in early Adelaide, the
spread of the agricultural frontiers and the new 20th century
planning philosophies and model developments.
The rapid post World War II urban expansions and new cities initiatives are analysed as are the legislative policies from the 1960s onwards.
This edition brings the reader up to date with postscripts of new research and insights and carries the story forward to the present day.
Still the only complete planning history of any Australian state, it is a work of scholarship easily accessible to students, practitioners and the interested citizen.
Copies can be purchased from the Planning Institute of Australia (SA) by phoning Kirsty Kelly on 8410 2988 or emailing kirsty.kelly@planning.org.au