Modern Melbourne: City and Site of Nature and Culture

Author:   Rod Giblett ,  Warwick Mules ,  Emily Potter ,  Rod Giblett
Publisher:   Intellect Books
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9781789381955


Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 July 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Modern Melbourne: City and Site of Nature and Culture


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Melbourne, founded in 1835 among marshes and beside a sluggish stream, grew from wetlands into a world-class modern city. Drawing on a wide range of historical, literary, and artistic sources, this book explores the cultural and environmental history of the city and its site. Tracing the city from its swampy beginnings in a squatter’s settlement nestled in the marshy delta of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers, Rod Giblett illuminates Melbourne through its visible structures and the invisible history of its site.   It places Melbourne within an international context by comparing and contrasting it to other cities built on or beside wetlands, including London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and Toronto. Further, it is the first book to apply the work of European thinkers and writers on modernity and the modern city—such as Walter Benjamin and Peter Sloterdijk—to an analysis of Melbourne. Giblett considers the intertwining of nature and culture, people and place, and cities and wetlands in this bioregional and ecocultural analysis. Placing the city in its proper bioregional and international contexts, Modern Melbourne provides a rich historical analysis of the cultural capital of Australia.

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Author:   Rod Giblett ,  Warwick Mules ,  Emily Potter ,  Rod Giblett
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
ISBN:  

9781789381955


ISBN 10:   1789381959
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   01 July 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Australian Capital of Modernity PART I – City of Ghost Swamps 2. Lost Wetlandscapes 3. Wasteland and Wetland 4. Found and Founded Wetlands 5. Lost Foundations PART II – Visible City, Invisible Site 6. The Paris of the South 7. Nature on Display 8. Streams of Living Water 9. Modes of Transportation and Communication 10. Sport and its Homes 11. Culture on Display  

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Rod Giblett is honorary associate professor of environmental humanities in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Australia. He is the author of Black Swan Lake: Life of a Wetland and Cities and Wetlands: The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture.

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