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‘Creation of a better urban environment’: Sydney’s Civic Design Society 1962–1984 by Robert Freestone is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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The increasing acceptance of urban design as an important planning and development framework from the 1960s was mediated through different institutional and place-based circumstances. In Sydney, Australia, a now largely forgotten body, the Civic Design Society, made a significant contribution as 'a central rallying point for all persons and organizations concerned with fighting ugliness and with making our towns and cities better and more beautiful'. This paper recounts the origins, activities, contributions and legacy of what began as a university club and became an inclusive forum for community and professional engagement in planning, urban renewal, heritage conservation and design issues.

Author

Robert Freestone

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2022

Language

EN