Canberra red : stories from the bush capital / / edited by David Headon, Andrew MacKenzie

• Pubblicazione: Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 711; 994.71
• Soggetto geografico: Canberra (A.C.T.) History
• Persona (resp. second.): HeadonDavid; MacKenzieAndrew
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover -- About the authors -- Title page -- Imprint -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Learning to Live on the Limestone Plains -- 2 The Long Dinner Party -- 3 A City of the Mind -- 4 An Ideal City -- 5 'A Chosen City': Americans in the Capital -- 6 The View from Mount Ainslie -- 7 A Great Place to Raise (Australian) Kids -- 8 Cultural Capital -- 9 Belconnen Mall -- 10 When Our Ethos Sings -- 11 Made in Canberra -- 12 Recovery Stories -- 13 Representing the National Capital at Regatta Point -- 14 Decompacting the City -- 15 Still Settling the Limestone Plains -- Contributor biographies -- Picture credits.
• Sommario/riassunto: Canberra is not simply a city. It is a chosen city.' - <i>Marion Halligan</i> Dragged from the big metropolises of Sydney and Melbourne in the 1920s, a first generation of federal government workers settled into humble red brick Canberra 'govvies' on the brown paddocks of the Limestone Plains. They complained about the cold and the lack of pubs. But over time, like the first pioneers a century earlier, they embraced their new home. They grew fond of the peaceful tree-lined streets of their garden city in the bush, proud of what had been created around the muddy Molonglo River. <i>Canberra Red<
• Titolo autorizzato: Canberra red
• ISBN: 1-74343-513-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787327703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II