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Built Environments I (DESST 1006)

e-Research topic 11

Save Our Adelaide Suburbs

Save Our Adelaide Suburbs (SOAS) President Evonne Moore is reported as saying "The character and amenity of the established low-density suburb is going as attractive older houses and gardens are demolished to make way for dense multi-umit dwellings - with little or no back yards". (p4, Advertiser, Saturday March 29th, 2003).
What is the Save Our Adelaide Suburbs campaign? Who is best served by this movement? Is it simply a means of the existing residents preventing anyone else moving into their suburb?

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Wheatley, Kim. "The Great Divide", Advertiser, 29th March 2003, pages 4-5.

Wheatley, Kim. "Tougher stance to curb urban sprawl", Advertiser, 29th March 2003, page 13

Hough, Andrew. "Plea to save suburb from bulldozers", Advertiser, 6th March 2004, page 17.

Kemp, Miles. "The urban squeeze", Advertiser, 17 March 2001, pages 65-66.

Lewis, Miles. "Save Our Suburbs" St Peters Residents Association. Newsletter, October 2000.

Ooi, Teresa. "Bye bye to the 'burbs'?, Australian, 23-24 February 2002, page 35.

Pipps, Chris, "Chief of Planning deflects 'ghetto' fears", City Messenger, 10th April 2002, page 11.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Troy, Patrick N. The perils of urban consolidation:a discussion of Australian housing and urban development policies. Leichhardt, N.S.W. , Federation Press, 1996.
Main Collection 307.120994 T864p

Watson, Sophie, Katherine Gibson (eds.) Postmodern cities and spaces. Cambridge, Mass., Oxford, U.K., Blackwell, 1995.
Main Collection 307.76 W342p

Hamnett, Chris (ed.) Social geography. London, New York, Arnold, Copublished in the US, Central and South America by J. Wiley, 1996.
Main Collection 307.12 H227s
See in particular Chapters 14. Social Justice, Postmodernism and the City / D. Harvey -- 15. Society, Space and Citizenship: A Human Geography for the "New Times"? / S. J. Smith .

Merrifield, Andy, Erik Swyngedouw. The urbanization of injustice. Washington Square, New York University Press, 1997.
Main Collection 307.76 M569u
See in particular; Chapters 1. Social Justice and the Urban Experience / Andy Merrifield and Erik Swyngedouw -- 2. Justice, Politics and the Creation of Urban Space / Susan Fainstein -- 3. Social Justice, Liberalism and the City: Considerations on David Harvey, John Rawls and Karl Polanyi / Ira Katznelson -- 4. The Environment of Justice / David Harvey -- 5. Space/Power, Identity/Difference: Tensions in the City / Doreen Massey -- 6. Social Justice and the New American Urbanism: The Revanchist City / Neil Smith -- 7. Street Sensibility? Negotiating the Political by Articulating the Spatial / Michael Keith -- 9. Margin/Alia: Social Justice and the New Cultural Politics / Edward Soja.
With the advent of AIDS, the proliferation of gangs and drugs, and the uneasy sensation that Big Brother is actually watching us, the dark side of urban living seems to be overshadowing the brighter side of pleasure, liberation, and opportunity. New conditions make exploring the links between urbanism, power and justice more relevant than ever. In one cohesive volume, The Urbanization of Injustice chronicles these bleak urban images

South Australia. Planning SA. Good residential design SA: a resource for planning, designing and developing neighbourhoods and homes. Adelaide, Planning SA, 1999.
Reference collection 711.58099423 P712g

Other Articles
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Ward, Peter. "Big dreams of small houses - The Australian Century - Part 3: Where We Live", Australian, 10th March 2001, page L03.

Crouch, Brad." Lifestyle issues mean . . . Homeowners make big switch", Sunday Mail, 10th June 2001, page 42.

Collie, M.J.S. "The Case For Urban Consolidation", Australian Planner, vol. 28, 1990, pages 26-33.

O'toole, Randal. "Is Urban Planning 'Creeping Socialism'?", Independent Review, vol. 4, 2000, page 501.

Forsyth, Ann. "Five images of a suburb: perspectives on a new urban development", Journal of the American Planning Association, vol. 63, 1997, page 45.
Abstract: Several views regarding urban development are developed using a case study on the Rouse Hill urban expansion project in Sydney, Australia. Among the statements made by housing professionals and activists interviewed in the study, five key perspectives were drawn. These include the expansionist view, the developers' perspective, the local environmentalists' view, the consolidationalists' view and the scientific environmentalists' perspective.

Clifton-Evans, L. "Call for population policy" Herald Sun (Melbourne), 7th October 2000, page M3.

Cuthbertson, K. "City dwelling jumps" Herald Sun (Melbourne), 7th September 2000, page 9.

"Many-splendoured things. (A Survey Of Cities: Turn Up the Lights)", Economist, vol. 336, 29th July 1995, pages S3(4).

City of Burnside. Media release. Mayors call for urgent review, 05 March, 2000.

Haran, B. "Plans and pains", Advertiser (Adelaide), 8th November 2000, page 19.

Rossi, H. "Plea to control urban infill", Sunday Mail (Adelaide), 3rd December 2000, page 4.

"New urbanism", Built Environment Innovation & Construction Technology, no. 16, December 2000,

Ward, Peter. "Back to the future", Australian, 24th May 1999, page 17.

Web sites
South Australia Development Plans
Guidelines for each Council area.

SOBS Save Our Brisbane Suburbs
Provides papers, submissions, fact sheets, information sheets etc. addressing the issues raised in suburban development proposals.

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information.

Encyclopedia of architecture, design, engineering & construction. Wiley, New York, 1990.
Reference collection 720.3 W682e
"Multifamily housing", vol.3, pages 484-496. "Residential buildings: twentieth-century suburban and urban dwelling", vol.4, pages 228-232. "Urban design: scale and architecture", vol.5, pages 153-173. "Urban design: the creation of livable cities", vol.5, pages 174-191. "Urban site analysis". vol. 5, pages 598-599.

Ching, F. D. K. Visual dictionary of architecture. Wiley, New York, 1997.
Reference collection 720.3 C539v
Instead of an alphabetical listing, the information is clustered around basic aspects of architecture with words placed in their visual context. Included are fundamental terms relating to architectural design, history and technology.

Curl, J. S. Dictionary of architecture. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Reference collection 720.3 C975d
"Suburbia" page 648.

Fleming, J. Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. 5th ed. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1998.
Reference collection 720.1 F597p
"Suburb", page 555.

The following handbooks present guidelines for architectural design over a range of activities, building types, and environments. These follow European or North American precedents, remember to check with Australian codes.

Architect's data. (Neufert) 3rd ed. Oxford, Blackwell Science Publishers, 2000.
Reference collection 721.0212 N482a.3

Metric handbook: planning and design data. 2nd ed. Oxford, Architectural Press, 1999.
Reference collection 721.0212 N532.2

Time-saver standards for landscape architecture: design and construction data. 2nd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Reference collection 712.0212 H313t.2

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The databases listed below cover information on aspects of urban and suburban redevelopment from an Australian perspective.

ARCH - indexes Australian architectural and design journals.   click here for search notes
APA-FT - indexes a range of Australian journals in the social sciences, full text of articles provided from 1995 for some 200 journals.   For search notes see ARCH
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BUILD - from the CSIRO, indexes journals, books and research reports on building and construction in Australia.   For search notes see ARCH
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This is only a small selection of possible databases, if you don't find what you need here, please come and see me, Kay Leverett, Architecture Librarian, or contact me by phone (8303 4659) or email: kay.leverett@adelaide.edu.au