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Creative suburbs? How women, design and technology renew Australian suburbs

Johnson, Louise 2012, Creative suburbs? How women, design and technology renew Australian suburbs, International journal of cultural studies, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 217-229.

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Title Creative suburbs? How women, design and technology renew Australian suburbs
Author(s) Johnson, Louise
Journal name International journal of cultural studies
Volume number 15
Issue number 3
Start page 217
End page 229
Total pages 13
Publisher Sage Publications
Place of publication London, England
Publication date 2012-05
ISSN 1367-8779
Keyword(s) Australia
creativity
master-planned estates
modernism
suburbs
Summary Australian suburbs have long been subjected to negative stereotyping – as aesthetic wastelands, politically conservative, socially isolated and environmentally rapacious – as the last places you would expect creativity. A critical engagement with this discourse and an examination of older as well as some newer suburbs unsettles these characterizations. A broad definition of ‘creativity’ directs attention to what was occurring in 20th century Australian suburbs – with a creative domestic economy and modernist architecture providing strong counters to their negative portrayal. Further, as a sample of Melbourne’s contemporary master-planned estates will illustrate, at least some of this city’s houses and neighbourhoods are at the leading edge of architectural innovation, community building and environmental sustainability – creatively developing alternatives to the stereotypical suburb.
Language eng
Field of Research 160401 Economic Geography
120508 Urban Design
169901 Gender Specific Studies
Socio Economic Objective 970112 Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2012, The Authors
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30045422

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