City Dreamers The Urban Imagination in Australia
, by Davison, GraemeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781742234694 | 1742234690
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2017
In City Dreamers Graeme Davison restores Australian cities, and those who created them, to their rightful place in the national imagination. Building on a lifetime’s work, Davison views Australian history, from 1788 to the present day, through the eyes of city dreamers – such as Henry Lawson, Charles Bean and Hugh Stretton – and others who have helped make the cities we inhabit. Davison looks at significant individuals or groups that he calls snobs, slummers, pessimists, exodists, suburbans and anti-suburbans – and argues that there’s a particular twist to the ways in which Australians think about cities. And the ways we live in them.