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Showing 1 to 20 of 1819 for “"Sydney"”.
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Hard sell: Australian football in Sydney
… entry into the rugby dominated domain of Sydney. It traces unsuccessful attempts made by the Victorian Football Association and the Victorian Football League to promote the code in Sydney during the 1880s and early part of the nineteenth century, the hiatus of the middle part of the 1900s …
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A national opera house for Sydney, Australia
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1956.
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Common pleasures : low culture in Sydney 1887-1914
… and analyses lower-class culture in inner-urban Sydney from 1887 to 1914 as it was enacted in three key institutions— the pub, the vaudeville theatre and the street. It proposes that resistance from below to the dominant order was commonly articulated through cultural codes and practices. …
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Spatial perspectives on residential property prices in Sydney
… of rational speculative price bubbles in the Sydney housing market and the role of views in the determination of individual residential property prices. Both of these issues are analyzed from a spatial perspective in two novel ways. Chapter 2 inspects the geographic distribution of results …
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Being somewhere: young homeless people in inner-city Sydney
… the field of homelessness in inner-city Sydney. The particular contribution of this work is to consider homelessness in terms of a theorised understanding of the broader role of place within homelessness, rather than in terms of the immediacy of cause or solution. While acknowledging the …
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The improvement of Sydney : infrastructure and administration 1900-20
… plans for changes in the physical structure of Sydney 1900-20. The thesis focuses upon the seminal Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909 and culminates in the pioneering Local Government Act 1919. The role of recent innovations in technology, including …
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The improvement of Sydney : infrastructure and administration 1900-20
… plans for changes in the physical structure of Sydney 1900-20. The thesis focuses upon the seminal Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909 and culminates in the pioneering Local Government Act 1919. The role of recent innovations in technology, including …
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Transparency and place : a visitors' center in Sydney Australia
… for the design of a visitors' center in Sydney Australia. The international design competition set by AlA, ASCA and DuPont Glass Industry, is asking for a building, addressed to visitors of Sydney, that represents the "Australian culture" and can provide general information on ways to …
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Green Promises, Grey Realities: The Politics of Park Provision in Sydney
… research investigates the provision of parks in Sydney, Australia, amid shifting urban density and land uses. As the city intensifies through both brownfield and greenfield development, the ability of planning systems to deliver accessible, functional open space is under increasing strain. …
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An inter-American study of William Sydney Porter's Latin American stories
… problem. This paper is an examination of William Sydney Porter's Latin American stories in light of their inter-American significance. The basic point of view from which the study is made is that Porter is a North American writing about Latin American at the beginning of the twentieth century. The …
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Community participation in planning practice : analysis of Sydney Metropolitan Strategy 2005
… this hypothesis, community participation in the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy was analysed in terms of process, outcomes and the stakeholders involved. The study was designed using a mixed method approach. Data collection methods included sending a mail-out questionnaire survey (163 persons …
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From Then to Now: Artist Run Initiatives in Sydney, New South Wales
… a constantly changing and evolving city, such as Sydney, is a continual challenge for ARIs. Starting in the “slums” of Woolloomooloo and progressing further and further west with the development and gentrification of the City, ARIs are innovators when it comes to composing and negotiating space. …
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Fuel moisture and fuel dynamics in woodland and heathland vegetation of the Sydney Basin
The vegetation of the Sydney Basin, Australia, is highly flammable and subject to a wide range of fire regimes. Sclerophyllous shrubs and sedges are common and in some vegetation types up to 70 % of fuel consumed during a fire can be live. Research into fire behaviour and fuel dynamics has been …
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Social disorganisation theory and violent crime: A spatial-econometric analysis of Chicago and Sydney
… explored in two large case studies, Chicago and Sydney, using spatial econometric methods and macro-sociological variables derived from Social Disorganisation Theory. Social Disorganisation Theory (SDT) is introduced in terms of its formulation in response to highly specific conditions arising in …
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