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Built Environments I (DESST 1006)

e-Research topic 12

Significant Trees

Research and comment upon the significant tree tree legislation as it affects your local Council area - be that urban or rural. Has the Council made any prosecutions? Have they already developed significant tree lists?
What impact (if any) has this legislation had on development?

REFERENCES

These references are starting points, a few references to show that there is material available on your topic from a variety of sources.
YOU need to -

apply basic literature searching techniques to find books, articles, reports, case studies, statistics, etc,

evaluate the content of the references in the context of your topic

fully ascribe references to their source, using the Author-Date (Harvard) style

Check with your lecturer or tutor if you have queries about the content of references.
Check with your librarian if you need assistance finding more material.

"Council opposes axing of Gardens pine: other big old trees face chop", City Messenger, 4th September 2002, page 5.

England, Cameron. "Govt told to make developers replace significant trees", City Messenger, 22nd January 2003, page 7.

Managing significant trees in the urban environment: report of the Urban Trees Reference Group. Adelaide, Minister of Transport and Urban Planning, 2000.

"Review urges scrapping tree listing law", Advertiser, 30th January 2003, page 27.

"Tree clearance penalty", Advertiser, 19 December 2002, page 23.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Ramsay, Juliet. Parks, gardens and special trees: a classification and assessment method for the Register of the National Estate. Canberra, Australian Government Publishing Service, 1991.
Main Collection 363.6905 A9382t 2

Heritage economics: challenges for heritage conservation and sustainable development in the 21st century, 4th July 2000, Australian National University. Canberra, Australian Heritage Commission, 2001.

Dashorst, G. Plants of the Adelaide plains and hills. Adelaide, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium, 2nd edition, 1998.
Reserve Collection 581.99423 D229p.2

Other Articles
Remember that you can use a number of databases to find articles on the topic. The articles listed below are merely a selection, find others through Australia/New Zealand reference centre, ElectricLibrary and LexisNexis. Click here for suggestions for quick ways of effective searching.

Butler, M. "Eastwood Box trees", Letters, Eastern Courier Messenger, 30th October 2002, page 16.

Petrys, Leisha. "Townhouses project threatens 115-year-old tree in Briar Ave, Medindie", City Messenger, 7th November 2001, page 9.

Petrys, Leisha. "Historic tree to go: secret vote", City Messenger, 19th December 2001, page 13.

Lloyd, Tim. "Lesser-known places face cut from register", Advertiser, 17th March 2001, page 35.

Web sites
Planning SA. Policy document. Urban trees.
Provides links to report, fact sheet, planning amendment report, and amendments to legislation and regulations relating to the protection of urban trees.

South Australia Development Plans
The principal development control document for South Australia containing Development Plans for all of South Australia.

SA Central
Provides links to individual local government sites as well as heritage and planning information.

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS and HANDBOOKS are useful sources for background information.

Encyclopedia of architecture, design, engineering & construction. Wiley, New York, 1990.
Reference collection 720.3 W682e
"Preservation, Historic", vol.4, pages 52-68. "Design use of trees", pages 422-423.

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.

Fleming, J. Penguin dictionary of architecture and landscape architecture. 5th. ed. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1998.
Reference collection 720.3 F597p
"Historical preservation", pages 263-265.

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

Finding MORE INFORMATION on the topic

Use the Library Catalogue to find books and reports.

For an initial search select Basic Search, then from Search by: select Keywords (using and, or, not). Using the Boolean operators will allow you to make your search effective. In the Search for: bar type words to describe your topic, then click on Search. With the AND operator between your search terms, the Catalogue will find records which include each search word. For example:

heritage AND trees finds 15 records which include both of these words somewhere in the record.

When there are alternative words for a concept, enclose the words within round brackets ( ) and type OR between each word. Where you want both singular and plural forms of a word, truncate the word and add a question mark ? to the stem. For example:

(tree? OR landscape? OR vegetation) AND (heritage OR significan?) AND (city OR urban)

The resulting search report shows your search strategy and the number of titles which match that search strategy, followed by a numbered list of the titles arranged according to a relevance formula. If you want to see the most recent books first, go to Sort by above the list of titles, and pull down to Date (latest first).
Where a title looks useful, click on the title to get the full description, including Subject Heading(s):, Call Number: and number of copies. Note any other words you could use in your search.
Use the previous and next icons to move backwards or forwards through the list of titles.

Note the range of social and technical topics covered in the titles retrieved. For each title that looks relevant, click on the small check box to the left of the title to create a temporary file of these records, which you can email, print or transfer to disk. Remember to click on Retain Selected before moving to the next page of results. Go to the bottom of the list of titles or individual record for the Save Options box and select Print/Save or E-mail or Save To Bookbag as required.

Where there is a relevant Subject Heading, click on this to get a list of 50 subject headings. Choose a Subject Heading of interest to find records for other books with that Subject Heading. For example:

City planning and redevelopment law
Historic sites
Trees in cities
Urban beautification

Another way to use Subject Headings is through the Guided keyword search.
From Search by: select Subject, and in the search bar(s) type words that you know from useful subject headings. For example:

landscape urban [leave the default at] all of these
AND
tree? beautification [leave the default at] all of these
This search finds 1 record which includes these two pairs of words in a subject heading or its subheadings.

Alternatively, if you are interested in either trees or beautification of urban landscape, change the default, for example:

landscape urban [leave the default at] all of these
AND
tree? beautification [change the default to] any of these where either of the words must appear in a Subject Heading. This is a broader search and finds 7 records.

Go to What does the Library have on my topic? for ways of improving your search results

Use INDEXES and DATABASES to find what articles or papers have been written on your topic

These databases use Boolean operators, in most cases it is safe to use the words AND or OR (with brackets) but there may be other codes used for truncation, such as an asterisk *. Search notes are provided for each database but if you don't get the results you expect, please check with the Architecture Librarian, Kay Leverett.

The databases listed below may include information on aspects of "significant" trees.

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
Australia/New Zealand reference centre - indexes articles in journals and major newspapers from Australia and New Zealand.      click here for search notes
BUILD - from the CSIRO, indexes journals, books and research reports on building and construction in Australia.   For search notes see ARCH
AHB; Australian heritage bibliography - from the Australian Heritage Commission, indexing articles on heritage issues in the natural and built environments.   For search notes see ARCH
ElectricLibrary - includes full text of major Australian newspapers, some general encyclopedias and journals.     click here for search notes

international sources which may give you some more ideas are -
Avery Index - an international index for architectural and design journals. click here for search notes
EAI: Expanded Academic Index - covers a wide range of journals. Provides full text for many of the articles. click here for search notes
GEOBASE - an international index of articles, books and research reports on urban geography. For search techniques see ARCH
LexisNexis - a huge international database; includes full text of Australian newspapers. click here for search notes

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