he Assignment Question
Choose one of the following questions. In formulating your response, bear in my mind that all these topics are open to debate, so there are no simple or ‘right’ answers. You will need to present an argument and substantiate it with a variety of sources – the work of other academics, authors and commentators – to substantiate any claims being made.
- Using an Australian city or one from overseas, demonstrate how planning concepts borrowed from the Anglo-American planning tradition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, had helped to shape the original layout and historical development of that particular city?
Benevolo, L. (1980) The History of the City, Scolar Press, London
Clark, P. (2013) The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Hall, P. (1998) Cities in Civilisation, Pantheon Books, New York.
Hamnett, S. and Freestone, R. (2000 eds.) The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History, St Leonards, Allen and Unwin.
Home, R. (2013) Of Planting and Planning: The Making of British Colonial Cities, 2nd edition, Routledge, London – on-line access via e-books.
Freestone, R. (1989) Model Communities: The Garden City Movement in Australia, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne.
Freestone, R. (2010) Urban Nation: Australia’s Planning Heritage, CSIRO Publishing, Canberra.
Davison, G. (2001) The European City in Australia, Journal of Urban History, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 779-793.
McCarty, J. and Schedvin, C. (1978 eds.) Australian Capital Cities: Historical Essays, Sydney University Press, Sydney.
Morris, A. (2013) History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolution, Routledge, London.
Mumford, L. (1979) The City in History, Penguin Books, New York.
Owens, E. (1991) The City in the Greek and Roman World, Routledge, London.
Pounds, N. (2005) The Medieval City, Greenwood Press, Westport on-line book.
Sandercock, L. (1975) Cities for Sale: Property, Politics and Urban Planning in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Schedvin, C. and McCarty (1970 eds.) Urbanization in Australia: The Nineteenth Century, Sydney University Press, Sydney.
Statham, P. (1989) The Origins of Australia’s Capital Cities, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
Vernon, C. (2014) Daniel Burnham and Australia’s Federal Capital, 1893-1912, Planning Perspectives, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 501-525.
Ward, S. (2002) Planning the Twentieth-Century City, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
- To what extent has a concern about the environment and environmental issues shaped the urban planning of towns and cities through history? Discuss.
Ashworth, W. (1951) British Industrial Villages in the Nineteenth Century, Economic History Review, Vol. 3.
Bacon, E (1976) Design of Cities, Thames and Hudson, London.
Bakley, S. (1975) Unit 23: The Garden City. Open University Press, England.
Bell, C. and Bell, R. (1972) City Fathers: The Early History of Town Planning in Britain, Pelican Books, London.
Benevolo, L. (1980) The History of the City, Scolar Press, London
Cherry, G. (1988) Cities and Plans, Edward Arnold, London.
Fishman, R. (1977) Urban Utopias In The Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier, chps. 1-4, MIT Press, Boston.
Freestone, R. (1989) Model Communities: The Garden City Movement in Australia, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne.
Hall, P. (1998) Cities in Civilisation, Pantheon Books, New York.
Hall, T. (1997) From Hippodamus to Haussmann: Town Planning in a Historical Perspective, chp. 2 in Hall, T. Planning Europe’s Capital Cities, Routledge, London.
Howard, E. (1945) Garden Cities of To-morrow, Faber and Faber, London.
Kostof, S. (1991) The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, Bulfinch Press, New York.
Morris, A. (2013) History of Urban Form: Before the Industrial Revolution, Routledge, London.
Mumford, L. (1979) The City in History, Penguin Books, New York.
Owens, E. (1991) The City in the Greek and Roman World, Routledge, London.
Pepper, D. (1984) The Roots of Modern Environmentalism, 1st edition, Routledge, London.
Pounds, N. (2005) The Medieval City, Greenwood Press, Westport on-line book.
- Two early twentieth century concepts – the garden suburb and neighbourhood unit – are claimed to have had a profound impact upon the suburban development of many western capitalist cities. Critically assess these two concepts and consider what impact they have had upon the urbanisation process in Australia since the end of WW2?
Bakley, S. (1975) Unit 23: The Garden City. Open University Press, England.
Birrell, B. et al., (2012) The End of Affordable Housing in Melbourne? Centre for Population and Urban Research, Monash University, Clayton.
Buxton, M., Goodman, R. and Moloney, S. (2016) Planning Melbourne: Lessons for a Sustainable City, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.
Department of Infrastructure and Transport (2011) Cities: Population growth, jobs growth and commuting flows in Melbourne, Research Report 125, Bureau if Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics, Canberra.
Dodson, J. and Sipe, N. (2008) Shocking the Suburbs: Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City, UNSW Press, Sydney.
Freestone, R. (1989) Model Communities: The Garden City Movement in Australia, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne.
Fishman, R. (1977) Urban Utopias in The Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, Basic Books, New York.
Hall, P. (1988) Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the 20th Century, Blackwell, London.
Hall, P. and Ward, C. (1998) Sociable cities: The 21st Century Reinvention of the Garden City, Routledge, London.
Howard, E. (1945) Garden Cities of To-morrow, Faber and Faber, London.
Johnson, D. (2002) Origin of the Neighbourhood Unit, Planning Perspectives, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 227-245.
Parsons, K. and Schuyler, D. (eds. 2002) From Garden City to Green City The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard, Johns Hopkins.
Perry, C. (1929) The Neighbourhood Unit: A Scheme of Arrangement for the Family-Life Community, Vol. 7, Russell Sage Foundation (1929) The Regional Plan of New York and its Environs, Russell Sage Foundation, New York.
Tomlinson, R. (2012) Australia’s Unintended Cities: The Impact of Housing on Urban Development, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.
Troy. P. (1996) The Perils of Urban Consolidation, The Federation Press, Sydney.
Ward, S. (2002) Planning the Twentieth-Century City, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
- To what extent can it be argued that colonial Melbourne experienced many of the same problems that existed in the towns and cities of Victorian era England? Discuss.
Barrett, B. (1971) The Inner Suburbs: The Evolution of an Industrial Area, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Briggs, A. (1970) Victorian Cities, Harper & Row, England.
Bowler, C. and Brimblecombe, P. (2000) Control of Air Pollution in Manchester prior to the Public Health Act, 1875, Environment and History, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 71-98.
Cannon, M. (1975) Life in the Cities: Australia in the Victorian Age, Volume 3, Thomas Nelson, West Melbourne.
Cherry, G. (1988) Cities and Plans, Edward Arnold, London.
Davison, G., Dunstan, D. and McConville, C. (eds. 1985) The Outcasts of Melbourne, Allen & Unwin Press, Sydney.
Dunstan, D. (1984) Governing the Metropolis: Melbourne 1850-1891, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Dyos, H. (1967) The slums of Victorian London, Victorian Studies, Vol. 11.
Engels, F. (2003) The Great Towns chp. In LeGates, R. and Stout, F. (eds.) The City Reader, Routledge, London.
Flick, C. (1980) The Movement for Smoke Abatement in 19th century Britain, Technology and Culture, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 29-50.
Freestone, R. (2010) Urban Nation: Australia’s Planning Heritage, CSIRO Publishing, Canberra.
Gill, G. (2000) Cholera and the Fight for Public Health Reform in Mid-Victorian England, Historian, Vol. 66, Summer, pp, 10-16.
Gleeson, B. (2001) Domestic space and disability in nineteenth century Melbourne, Australia, Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 223-240.
Grant, J. and Serle, G. (1978) The Melbourne Scene, 1803-1956, Hale & Ironmonger, Sydney.
La Nauze, R. (2011) Who Designed Melbourne’s Sewerage System? Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 175-193.
Lewis, M. and Macleod, R. (1987) A Workingman’s Paradise? Reflections on Urban Mortality in Colonial Australia, 1860-1900, Medical History, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 387-402.
Lewis, M. (1995) Melbourne: The City’s History and Development, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne.
Shaw, A. (2002) La Trobe’s Melbourne, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 133-142.
Pawsey, M. 1995) Life on the Margins in Nineteenth-Century Collingwood, Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 66, No. 1, pp. 3-19.
Pike, E. (1967) Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age (1850-1875), George Allen & Unwin, England.
- It has been argued that the historic strategic metropolitan planning of Melbourne had been overly reliant upon concepts and ideas derived from elsewhere in the world. Discuss this assertion with reference to several 20th century strategic metropolitan plans for Melbourne.
All the past strategic metropolitan plans for Melbourne from 1929 through to 2017 can be found on-line at the following website of the Victorian Government:
https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/policy-and-strategy/planning-for-melbourne (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
Buxton, M., Goodman, R. and Moloney, S. (2016) Planning Melbourne: Lessons for a Sustainable City, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood.
Freestone, R. (1989) Model Communities: The Garden City Movement in Australia, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne.
Freestone, R. and Grubb, M. (1998) The Melbourne Metropolitan Town Planning Commission, 1922-30, Journal of Australian Studies, Vol. 22, pp. 128-144.
Grubb, M. (1996) The 1954 Melbourne and Metropolitan Planning Scheme: Home Grown Product or American Import? Paper delivered at 3rd Australian Planning History and Urban History Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, pp. 269-274.
Hamnett, S. and Freestone, R. (2000 eds.) The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History, St Leonards, Allen and Unwin.
Hillier, J. (2014) Revealing Melbourne’s Long-obscured Planning Culture, chp. 5, in Gleeson, B. and Beza, B. (eds.) The Public City: Essays in Honour of Paul Mees, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, pp. 54-73.
Lewis, M. (1995) Melbourne: The City’s History and Development, Melbourne City Council, Melbourne.
Mc Loughlin, B. (1992) Shaping Melbourne’s Future?, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.
Sandercock, L. (1975) Cities for Sale: Property, Politics and Urban Planning in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
Taylor, N. (1998) Urban Planning Theory since 1945, Sage Publications, London.
Ward, S. (2002) Planning the Twentieth-Century City, John Wiley and Sons, Chiches
Length
2,200 to 2,500 words
Due Date
Wednesday 17th October 17.00 (or 5.00 pm)
The Assessment Criteria:
The assessment criteria to be used to grade this research essay shall consist of the following:
- did the essay answer address all parts of the question;
- was the essay answer able to formulate a coherent argument;
- did it gather enough information and examples to help substantiate the argument being advanced in the essay answer;
- did it exhibit an understanding of the subject matter (ie. provided definitions plus it explained key concepts and ideas);
- did it adopt a standard essay format – introductory and concluding paragraphs plus well-structured connected paragraphs that are logically ordered in their content with regard to answering the question;
- adhered to the word limit;
- did it consult some of the suggested references as well as the lecture notes and any relevant material;
- did it exhibit good written expression (ie. grammar, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, etc);
- did it exhibit correct internal text referencing according to the Harvard style, plus
- did it possess a bibliography that only contains those reference sources actually cited in the text discussion.
