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Contested Riverscapes in Indonesia
Kim Dovey, Amanda Achmadi, Brian Cookinfur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2018/08/10/contested-riverscapes-in-indonesia
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Informal Public Transport
Dave Ashmore, Crystal Legacy, Derlie Mateo-Babiano, John Stone, Reden Recioinfur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2018/08/10/informal-public-transport
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How to fix Parliament House – what about some neighbours?
Parliament House in Canberra celebrated its 30th birthday last week; the grass was freshly mowed and the fences to keep the citizens off the hill were under construction. While it is customary on such occasions to celebrate the virtues of what is surely a masterfully composed building, I want to explore here the relations of architecture to power.infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2018/05/18/how-to-fix-parliament-house-what-about-some-neighbours
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How a three-decade of remaking the city revived the buzz of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’
In the gallery of Australian art at Federation Square hangs John Brack’s iconic portrait of Melbourne in the 1950s — Collins Street, 5pm. This painting of the ritual march home from work to the suburbs depicts a city full of people and buildings, yet monochromatic and flat. It has become iconic not only because it captured a mid-20th-century conformity, but also because it stood for the loss of an intensive urbanity that had flourished in the “Marvellous Melbourne” of the late 19th century…
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