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Creative suburbs? How women, design and technology renew Australian suburbs
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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International journal of cultural studiesVolume
15Issue
3Pagination
217 - 229Publisher
Sage PublicationsLocation
London, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1367-8779eISSN
1460-356XLanguage
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2012, The AuthorsUsage metrics
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