Alistair Knox (1912–1986) and the Birth of Environmental Building in Australia
Environmental building in Australia as a form of communing with nature.
Environmental building in Australia as a form of communing with nature.
The Machine upgraded by Dufrayer was able to pump the impressive amount of 20,000 m3 per day but new concern threatened its existence: the Seine waters growing pollution.
Water management can have profound effects upon the landscape.
This article is an exploration of the chemical heritage of mining activities in northern Chile.
In 1980, Modena was the first city in Italy to introduce a law recognizing social urban allotments.
Brisbane’s 1893 floods shaped water policy in southeast Queensland, creating a dependency on dams.
Brisbane’s 1974 floods substantially damaged Brisbane, accelerating the government’s plans for a second flood mitigation dam.
The contributions in this volume explore the way that Australasian environments have been envisioned, worked, and changed in the past, and how ideas about places inform the present and future of the continent.
Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.
Cushing uses the voyage of the First Fleet to illustrate the shift in hierarchies and power relations between humans and animals.