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    Reclamation art : an alternative aesthetic to the picturesque
    Dobbie, Meredith (University of Melbourne, 1996)
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    A landscape for learning : the design and use of the school ground
    Walker, Lisa M (University of Melbourne, 1993)
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    Wurundjeri
    Turley, David (University of Melbourne, 1992)
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    Rethinking the Inflexible City: what can Australian planning learn from successful implementation of ‘temporary uses’ across the world?
    Perkovic, Jana ( 2013)
    Temporary uses have been identified as a low-cost, participatory, and economically beneficial method of managing urban change. As planning practice increasingly deploys temporary use, good outcomes require an understanding of how the two interact. Using the case study methodology, this thesis examines the ways in which formal planning practice can encourage, support, complicate and hinder informal temporary urbanism. The thesis does this by analysing the experiences of four agencies facilitating the implementation of temporary uses worldwide, examining their interaction with the planning system, and identifying common constructive and obstructive policy mechanisms. Temporary use projects can be initiated without high levels of support from formal planning; however, having to comply with the formal planning process is a significant hurdle. Traditional planning does not make provisions for short-term urbanism, imposing costly and time-consuming processes incommensurate with the short duration and low cost of the temporary use. Applications for change of use, requirements for building safety triggered by the planning process, and the perceived arbitrariness of the decision-making process are the biggest hurdles that formal planning imposes on temporary use. Temporary uses are best supported through dedicated processes, staff, and relaxed regulations. The findings confirm that temporary uses are a successful method for finding opportunity in situations of uncertainty and crisis. Formal planning practice can strategically deploy temporary projects to achieve long-term planning objectives. These findings should spark more debate about, research on, and experimentation with temporary uses.
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    'Nature Conservation' and Materialist Theory
    Farago, Adrienne (University of Melbourne, 1984)
    The environmental consciousness leading to a widespread belief in the existence of an 'environmental crisis' has been spreading through western societies since the late 1960s. A materialist view of society, based on the belief in the importance of the economic base in the political and social evolution and structure of societies, has been present for even longer. Paradigmatic debates relating to the appropriateness of the materialist viewpoint have been apparent in discussions of environmental problems as with other social issues. For some time, however, the materialist debate ignored environmental problems, for two main reasons: because it was felt that the social principles of primary concern to those within the materialist paradigm were incompatible with concern for environmental problems; and because environmental problems were seen to be peculiar to capitalist conditions This paper takes the view that environmental problems have an objective reality which must be debated within the materialist paradigm. The aim is to take a first step towards an analysis of the role of "nature conservation" - one type of environmental issue - in a materialist theory of society. The method used is to examine nature conservation issues in Victoria using materialist concepts or theoretical tools. The main concept used is the materialist theory of the state, but other concepts such as surplus value extracted from the environment, the commodification of natural values, and the role of nature appreciation as 'culture', are also discussed. Throughout the paper, the previously-mentioned themes of the elitism of environmental concerns, and the particular relationship between environmental problems and capitalist society, are highlighted, in an attempt to end the argument that the materialist viewpoint and the environmental viewpoint are incompatible.
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