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dc.contributor.author |
McNeil, PK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2151-4196
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dc.contributor.editor |
Hetherington, M |
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dc.date.issued |
2013-01 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Glorious Days: Australia 1913, 2013, First, pp. 121 - 133 |
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dc.identifier.isbn |
9781921953064 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10453/31838
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dc.description.abstract |
By 1913, more than one-third (37 per cent) of Australia's population lived in cities and we can marshal much evidence - from material culture, oral histories, and submissions before commissions into the living wage and housing - to create a snapshot of domestic life at this time. In the preceding century, the connections between high rates of disease, poverty and crime, and inadequate, overcrowded housing had become clear. Town planning, improved domesti architectun: an the provi ion of basi amenities were increasingly embraced for their role in social engineering and as solutions to medical problems. Home ownership was seen as a path out of poverty and into respeccability. and rhe loan chemes that cn~blcd the PUl'dltlS of homes in all AustTaliru, sUites by [he 1920 have their rootS in the workers' hO\.UIing Acts; for example, Western Australia's Workers' Homes Act of 1911. |
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dc.publisher |
National Museum of Australia Press |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Glorious Days: Australia 1913 |
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dc.title |
Domestic Environments |
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utslib.location |
Canberra |
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utslib.for |
120301 Design History and Theory |
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utslib.citation.edition |
First |
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pubs.embargo.period |
Not known |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design |
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pubs.organisational-group |
/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice |
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utslib.copyright.status |
open_access |
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pubs.consider-herdc |
false |
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pubs.edition |
First |
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pubs.place-of-publication |
Canberra |
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pubs.rights-statement |
1913 Glorious Days! was a major exhibition held at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, in 2013. It marked the 100-year anniversary of the development of Canberra as the new capital, the establishment of the Australian navy, and the hopes and aspirations of Australians in a progressive society before the outbreak of the Great War. McNeil was invited to write for the accompanying catalogue, Glorious Days: Australia 1913. An intensive planning day for this task with seventeen historians was conducted at the Museum in mid 2012, chaired by Professor Stuart McIntyre and attended by prominent Australian historians including Humphrey McQueen. The invitation to McNeil was based on his expertise in the area of Australian material culture, architectural history and domestic life. His contribution emphasises that the domestic environment was not simply reflective of the political economy; it actively shaped that sphere too. Weather, health and morality were connected to new ideas concerning the modern consumer and householder. The development immediately before the War of the first working and middle-class garden suburbs with the model of low-density housing in detached or semi-detached ‘California’ style brick or wood bungalows suggested an ideal for family life that would transform the appearance of Australian towns and cities. The research therefore has implications for understanding the propensity for low density housing in contemporary Australia and matters of sustainability and urban planning today. |
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