期刊名称：Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
印刷版ISSN：1324-4558
电子版ISSN：1833-3419
出版年度：2007
卷号：13
页码：23
出版社：University of Western Australia
摘要：Australia is a suburban nation. Today, when debate about urban sustainability is of key concern, an appreciation of the complex nature of Australian suburbia is critical to the debate about urban futures. Suburbia as a built environment has a long and complex history that embodies many overlapping values and motivations. This paper will investigate the extent to which the materiality of suburbia – landforms, vegetation, low density housing and streets – is intertwined with a number of social, political, economic and environmental value systems that reshape the landscape. Taking as its focus the post-war development of Kwinana (Perth, Western Australia), it will identify and account for the environmental, political and economic factors that shaped human action to construct the built form, paying particular attention to the extent to which individual understandings and visions of the environment determined the shape and nature of the suburb’s development.
