Leading lights : the promotion of garden suburb plans and planners in interwar Australia

This thesis explores interwar town planning in Australia, focusing on the period of large-scale urban expansion in the 1920’s. It problematises aspects of Australia’s urban planning history, particularly the 1920s ‘garden suburb. It also investigates the question of the use of international planning ideas in Australia, and the assertion or creation of authority by the Australian planning movement. The thesis additionally investigates the use of authoritative planning rhetoric for commercial or creative advantage. The thesis argues that the majority of innovative planning projects in the interwar years took place in the formation and foundation of the garden suburb. It shows that the garden suburb – assumed in much planning history to be an inferior form of Ebenezer Howard’s ‘garden city’ ideal – has, in fact, a number of precedents in 19th century Australian suburbia, some of which were retained in 20th century commercial estate design. Much of the Australian town planner’s authority at this time required recognition and awareness of the interests and needs of the general public, as negotiated through land vendors. As Australians looked to the future, and to the US for guidance, they were invited to invest in speculative real estate development modelled on this vision. The thesis concentrates primarily on the lives, careers and work of the British-Australian architect-planner Sir John Sulman; the Chicagoan architect-planners Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin; and the Australian surveyor-planner Saxil Tuxen. These individuals were among the most prominent planners in Australia in the interwar years. All designed Australian garden suburbs, and combined advocacy with practice in private and public spheres. The thesis examines images and personas, both generic and individual, of the planner and the vendor. It shows that the formulation of the garden suburb and design practices, and the incorporation of international elements into Australian planning, are important in the creation of planning practice and forms. It also outlines the way these continue to have significant impact, in diverse and important ways, on both the contemporary built environment and planning history itself.

Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee 1918 in New York

Reproduction of a painting of a meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee (representing the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Rellief Committee and the People's Relief Committee) and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee, with chairman Felix Warburg, secretary Albert Lucas, stenographer Mrs. F. Friedman, executive director Boris Bogen, comptroller Harriet Lowenstein, associate treasurer Paul Baerwald and treasurer Arthur Lehman; Office of Mr. Felix M. Warburg, 52 William Street, New York

"Cheap John's" auction; a narrative in three parts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal of the Grand council of South Carolina ... /

[v.1] August 25, 1671-June 24, 1680 -- [v.2] April 11, 1692--September 26, 1692.

The mental capacity of the American negro,

"Reprinted from the Archives of psychology, no. 28."

Prenticeana : or, Wit and humor in paragraphs /

Mode of access: Internet.

Journal /

[v.1] March 26, 1776-April 11, 1776.--[v.2] September 17, 1776-October 20, 1776.

Die Befreiungskriege 1813-1815 : aus Urkunden, Briefen, Tagebüchern and nachträglichen Aufzeichnungen von Augenzeugen beider Parteien dargestellt /

Mode of access: Internet.

農業政策

Mode of access: Internet.

Songs of the Susquehanna,

"Two hundred and fifty copies of this book printed on Glaslan hand-made paper and the type distributed in the month of February MDCCCCXIV."

Narratives of early Carolina, 1650-1708,

The discovery of New Brittaine, 1650.--Francis Yeardley's narrative of excursions into Carolina, 1654.--A relation of a discovery, by William Hilton, 1664.--A brief description of the province of Carolina, by Robert Horne (?) 1666.--A relation of a voyage on the coast of the province of Carolina, 1666, by Robert Sandford.--Letters of early colonists, 1670.--A faithful relation of my Westoe voyage, by Henry Woodward.--Carolina, or a description of the present state of that country, by Thomas Ashe, 1682.--An account of the province of Carolina, by Samuel Wilson, 1682.--Letters of Thomas Newe, 1682.--Journal of Elder William Pratt, 1695-1701.--Letter of Edward Randolph to the Board of trade, 1699.--Reverend John Blair's mission to North Carolina, 1704.--Party-tyranny, by Daniel Defoe, 1705.--The present state of affairs in Caroline, by John Ash, 1706.--A new description of that fertile and pleasant province of Carolina, by John Archdale, 1707.--From the history of the British empire in America, by John Oldmixon, 1708.

Commissions and instructions from the lords proprietors of Carolina to public officials of South Carolina, 1685-1715.

Mode of access: Internet.

Minutes of the vestry of St. Helena's parish, South Carolina, 1726-1812.

Mode of access: Internet.

The constitutions and other select documents illustrative of the history of France,

Mode of access: Internet.