The Lost City Of Melbourne
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The Lost City Of Melbourne
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Author : Robyn Annear
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-12
The Lost City Of Melbourne written by Robyn Annear and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12 with categories.
In the 1850s, Melbourne was the fastest growing city in the world. "They dreamt big, they built big¿.it was a city jumping out of its skin". It became an epicentre of film culture and its hotels, restaurants and cafes became world renowned. However, the attempted 'modernisation' of Melbourne in the 1950s destroyed much of the city, including its elegant cinemas and picture palaces. Our buildings were deemed too Victorian, the opposite of a modern metropolis, and Whelan The Wrecker's demolition blitz began.Featuring rare archival photography, this book is a revelatory work thatallows its audience to reimagine the former glory of the lost city of Melbourne.
The Lost City Of Melbourne
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The Lost City Of Melbourne written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Feature films categories.
The Lost City Of Melbourne
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Author : Gus Berger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Lost City Of Melbourne written by Gus Berger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Buildings categories.
A City Lost And Found
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Author : Robyn Annear
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2014-03-26
A City Lost And Found written by Robyn Annear and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-26 with Social Science categories.
“Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.” — Herald, 1925. The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992). Its famous sign – ‘Whelan the Wrecker is Here’ on a pile of shifting rubble – was a laconic masterpiece and served as a vital sign of the city’s progress. It’s no stretch to say that over three generations, the Whelan family changed the face of Melbourne, demolishing hundreds of buildings in the central city alone. In A City Lost and Found, Robyn Annear uses Whelan’s demolition sites as portals to explore layers of the city laid bare by their pick-axes and iron balls. Peering beneath the rubble, she brings to light fantastic stories about Melbourne’s building sites and their many incarnations. This is a book about the making – and remaking – of a city.
Lost Melbourne
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Author : Heather Chapman
language : en
Publisher: Pavilion
Release Date : 2014-01-07
Lost Melbourne written by Heather Chapman and has been published by Pavilion this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-07 with Travel categories.
Lost Melbourne looks at the cherished places in the city that time, fashion, and progress have swept aside—the old cinemas, the outdated hotels, the Victorian buildings in the wrong place. Organized chronologically from the date of loss, the book looks back at all kinds of Melbourne institutions that have vanished from the city's cultural and architectural life. Included in the book are sites such as the palatial Federal Coffee House, the original location of the Burke and Wills statue, the horse-racing track in Albert Park, old Spencer Street Station, the original grandstand of the MCG, large areas of Victoria Docks, the Fish Market, Western Market, and Hegarty's Royal Gymnasium Baths at St. Kilda.
The Deed Of Settlement As Adopted By The City Of Melbourne Gas And Coke Company At A Public Meeting Of Shareholders Held October 24th 1850
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Author : City of Melbourne Gas and Coke Company (MELBOURNE)
language : en
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Release Date : 1851
The Deed Of Settlement As Adopted By The City Of Melbourne Gas And Coke Company At A Public Meeting Of Shareholders Held October 24th 1850 written by City of Melbourne Gas and Coke Company (MELBOURNE) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1851 with categories.
Page Not Found
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Author : Melbourne (Vic.). Council
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Page Not Found written by Melbourne (Vic.). Council and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Directories categories.
Corners Of Melbourne
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Author : Robyn Annear
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-31
Corners Of Melbourne written by Robyn Annear and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Travel categories.
What better defines a city than its street corners? A corner gives you a starting point, a destination and a place to turn. It’s furnished with pillar boxes, newsstands and tram stops, and lamp-posts for light and lounging. Where would you be likeliest to find a pub? At the corner, of course. And who better than Robyn Annear to usher you around the corners of Melbourne, and reveal their bizarre, baroque and mostly forgotten stories? In this (appropriately corner-shaped) book she will introduce you to: street-corner ‘galvanisers’ who offered the thrill of electric shock at threepence a time the rude boys of the Fitzroy back streets who became the original ‘larrikins’ infants named for the corners on which they’d been abandoned a rogues’ gallery of unruly women, incorrigible men and runaway horses ...and, of course, the civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets, to the endangerment of life and limb.
Melbourne Circle
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Author : Nick Gadd
language : en
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
Release Date : 2021-07-23
Melbourne Circle written by Nick Gadd and has been published by Australian Scholarly Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-23 with Travel categories.
Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon after they completed the circle, Lynne passed away from cancer. Melbourne Circle is the story of their journey, a memoir, and a stunning meditation on personal loss. ‘What a gem this book is! Oddity, wonderment, weirdness: these splendid essays reveal a marvellous Melbourne most of us have never encountered before. This is a psychogeography dense with vernacular history, humane detail, and from beneath the shadow of grief, love.’ – Gail Jones, author of Five Bells and The Death of Noah Glass ‘‘‘Psychojogging”’ and the pleasures of walking.’ – interview with Hilary Harper on Radio National, Life Matters ‘Marvellous Melbourne: the books that capture our city and its life.’ – The Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss is a very special book. Just read it, and then take to the streets and walk with the same spirit of enquiry.’ – Sophie Cunningham, The Age ‘A beautiful meditation on the streets in which we live, ghosts, love and loss … While there is sadness in this book, Gadd writes with warmth, humour and a generosity of spirit.’ – Stephen Romei, The Weekend Australian ‘An endearing book about enduring love and serendipitous discoveries; of remnants of the past pasted onto old buildings, and the way these ghost signs are portals into another time.’ – The Saturday Paper
Neo Victorian Cities
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language : en
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
Release Date : 2015-02-04
Neo Victorian Cities written by and has been published by Hotei Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume explores the complex aesthetic, cultural, and memory politics of urban representation and reconfiguration in neo-Victorian discourse and practice. Through adaptations of traditional city tropes – such as the palimpsest, the labyrinth, the femininised enigma, and the marketplace of desire – writers, filmmakers, and city planners resurrect, preserve, and rework nineteenth-century metropolises and their material traces while simultaneously Gothicising and fabricating ‘past’ urban realities to serve present-day wants, so as to maximise cities’ potential to generate consumption and profits. Within the cultural imaginary of the metropolis, this volume contends, the nineteenth century provides a prominent focalising lens that mediates our apperception of and engagement with postmodern cityscapes. From the site of capitalist romance and traumatic lieux de mémoire to theatre of postcolonial resistance and Gothic sensationalism, the neo-Victorian city proves a veritable Proteus evoking myriad creative responses but also crystallising persistent ethical dilemmas surrounding alienation, precarity, Othering, and social exclusion.
