Published Resources Details
Edited Book
- Title
- Significant sites: History and public works in New South Wales
- Imprint
- Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1989, 192 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0868063649
- Description
A volume in the Public Works Department history project.
- Abstract
Do we create our cities, of do they create us? The authors of this book look at the special relationships between the history of the State and the people who made that history.
The stories buildings can tell are revealed here: the grand Australian Museum; the romantic inconvenience of the Conservatorium of Music; the harsh reality of 19th century gaols; the lost splendour of Sydney's Garden Palace; Australia's most famous bridge; the hospitals which stand as symbols of the dawn of Australian psychiatry. The whole landscape of public works is full of clues to the past - and lessons for the future.