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

journal contribution
posted on 2012-05-01, 00:00 authored by Louise JohnsonLouise Johnson
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.

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Journal

International journal of cultural studies

Volume

15

Issue

3

Pagination

217 - 229

Publisher

Sage Publications

Location

London, England

ISSN

1367-8779

eISSN

1460-356X

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2012, The Authors

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