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Book review : Accommodating Australians. Commonwealth Government involvement in housing : designer suburbs. Architects and affordable homes in Australia
This is a review of two very different books, one that charts the role of the Commonwealth government of Australia in providing public housing and the other deals with a number of architects and designers who made their work widely available to the Australian public in the 1960s and 70s through project homes.
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Book review: Accommodating Australians. Commonwealth Government Involvement in Housing, by Patrick Troy, Federation Press, Sydney, 2012, 320 pp., $59.95 (hardback), ISBN 9781862878747Journal
Journal of Australian studiesVolume
38Pagination
120-123Location
London, Eng.Publisher DOI
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2014-01-01End date
2014-01-01Material type
reviewResource type
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1835-6419Edition
38 (1)Language
engNotes
Book review: Designer Suburbs. Architects and Affordable Homes in Australia, by Judith O’Callaghan and Charles Pickett, New South Publishing, Sydney, 2012, 208 pp., $49.95 (paperback), ISBN 9781742233468.Publication classification
C4.1 Letter or noteCopyright notice
2014, Taylor & FrancisExtent
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Taylor & FrancisPlace of publication
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Australlian housinghouse designpublic housingSocial SciencesArts & HumanitiesArea StudiesCultural StudiesHistorySchool of Humanities and Social Sciences120103 Architectural History and Theory160404 Urban and Regional Studies (excl Planning)970112 Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society160403 Social and Cultural GeographyAlfred Deakin Research InstituteMD Multidisciplinary
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