Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The background to the founding of Adelaide and South Australia in 1836
- 2 The development of the City and State from 1840 until 1950 and the City/State relationship during this period
- 3 Changing attitudes to planning the City and State from 1950 until 1972
- 4 The establishment of the City of Adelaide Development Committee and the introduction of Interim Development Control
- 5 Planning in Sydney and the work of George Clarke
- 6 The City of Adelaide Planning Study
- 7 Converting the City of Adelaide Planning Study into a City Plan
- 8 An innovative system of city planning from 1 March 1977
- 9 Changes in the ACC and the State, and the first Heritage Study of the City
- 10 The operation of the City's planning system from November 1982 until May 1987
- 11 The Condous Lord Mayoralty and the declining importance of the City of Adelaide Planning Commission
- 12 The State Planning Review, the last City Plan and the end of the City's separate system
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Key People of Influence identified as potential interviewees
- Appendix 2 Heritage Summary Assessment Sheet
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The background to the founding of Adelaide and South Australia in 1836
- 2 The development of the City and State from 1840 until 1950 and the City/State relationship during this period
- 3 Changing attitudes to planning the City and State from 1950 until 1972
- 4 The establishment of the City of Adelaide Development Committee and the introduction of Interim Development Control
- 5 Planning in Sydney and the work of George Clarke
- 6 The City of Adelaide Planning Study
- 7 Converting the City of Adelaide Planning Study into a City Plan
- 8 An innovative system of city planning from 1 March 1977
- 9 Changes in the ACC and the State, and the first Heritage Study of the City
- 10 The operation of the City's planning system from November 1982 until May 1987
- 11 The Condous Lord Mayoralty and the declining importance of the City of Adelaide Planning Commission
- 12 The State Planning Review, the last City Plan and the end of the City's separate system
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Key People of Influence identified as potential interviewees
- Appendix 2 Heritage Summary Assessment Sheet
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE CITY OF ADELAIDE AND THE STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
In Scene I of Act III of William Shakespeare's play Coriolanus, Sicinius asks:
‘What is the City but the people?’
and the citizens reply:
‘True, the people are the City.’
I come from a long line of Welsh Methodist Ministers, which meant going to Chapel in the valleys twice every Sunday for services. At the beginning of his sermon my father would provide a text for the congregation to focus on while he was preaching. But before starting his sermon he would repeat the text for emphasis. Thus, ‘What is the City but the people?’ ‘True, the people are the City.’
In this book I argue that there was a particular relationship and balance of power between the Council of the City of Adelaide (ACC) and the State government of South Australia (State), mainly because of the influence of key individuals. I focus on the interplay between personalities and the politics behind the scenes of strategic and statutory planning in the City during the 21-year period from October 1972 until December 1993. During this time the City had its own planning and development control system separate from the rest of the State. But I ground my analysis of this period in an historical perspective of the founding of the City of Adelaide and the Province of South Australia in 1836 and their development until 1972.
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- Behind the ScenesThe politics of planning Adelaide, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2012