Killing Sydney : the fight for a city's soul / Elizabeth Farrelly.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Picador, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: cartographic image | still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760552589Subject(s): Regional planning -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Sustainable urban development -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Architecture -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Residential mobility -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Community development, Urban -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Community development -- New South Wales -- Sydney | City planning -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) | City planning -- New South Wales -- Sydney | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Economic conditions | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Buildings, structures, etc | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Politics and government | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- HistoryDDC classification: 994.41 LOC classification: HT169.A82 | S964 2021Summary: “A blueprint for the future of our city in a radically changing world. Columnist Elizabeth Farrelly brings her unique perspective as architectural writer and former city counsellor to a burning question for our time: how will we live in the future? Can our communities survive pandemic, environmental disaster, overcrowding, government greed and big business? Using her own adopted city of Sydney, she creates a roadmap for urban living and analyses the history of cities themselves to study why and how we live together, now and into the future. Killing Sydney is part-lovesong, part-warning little by little, our politics are being debased and our environment degraded. The tipping point is close. Can the home we love survive?”--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-376)
“A blueprint for the future of our city in a radically changing world. Columnist Elizabeth Farrelly brings her unique perspective as architectural writer and former city counsellor to a burning question for our time: how will we live in the future? Can our communities survive pandemic, environmental disaster, overcrowding, government greed and big business? Using her own adopted city of Sydney, she creates a roadmap for urban living and analyses the history of cities themselves to study why and how we live together, now and into the future. Killing Sydney is part-lovesong, part-warning little by little, our politics are being debased and our environment degraded. The tipping point is close. Can the home we love survive?”--Back cover.
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