City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 01/01/2017
ISBN: 9781742234694
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.10d