Hello, lash-ga!
The following online references should help you glean some
comprehensive information about the history of suburbanisation in
Australia to construct your "own" encyclopaedic entry.
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"Suburbanisation." School of GeoSciences.
http://www.uow.edu.au/science/geosciences/ugrad/lectnotes/geos242/suburbanisation.htm
Contains several definitions, comments and historical points about
the development of suburbanisation in Australia.
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From "Australia State of the Environment 1996: Executive Summary." An
Independent Report Presented to the Commonwealth Minister for the
Environment by the State of the Environment Advisory Council. ISBN 0
643 05830 3
http://ea.gov.au/soe/soe96/ex-summary/human.html
Some exerpts:
"Unlike many cities in the United States, which have deteriorating
cores, Australian cities are undergoing simultaneous processes of
suburbanisation, with new suburbs being created at the fringe, and
reurbanisation, with older areas being redeveloped. Suburbanisation is
still dominant in terms of population numbers, but reurbanisation now
accounts for more than 30 per cent of housing and 50 per cent of
commercial development."
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From "State of the Environment Report Card." (Updated April 2002)
http://www.cmit.csiro.au/innovation/2002-04/soe.htm
"Reurbanisation and * suburbanisation * processes are now operating
concurrently. These have slowed and will subsequently reverse the
inner city depopulation trends of the period up until the mid-1980s in
Australia's capital cities. Suburbanisation continues to be the
process that accommodates the overwhelming proportion of new urban
households in Australia's cities, with attendant sprawl into
surrounding peri-urban regions."
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From "Inner-City Renaissance - The Changing Face, Functions and
Structure of Brisbane's Inner City." Robert Stimson, Patrick Mullins,
Scott Baum, Rex Davis, Sally Gleeson and Kirstyn Shaw. University of
Queensland. (2000)
http://www.uq.edu.au/cr-surf/InnerCity/files/Chapter%201.pdf
"Australian cities revolve around processes of suburbanixations and
the constant march of urban sprawl further and further out from the
traditional city centres. That rapid suburbanisation has been driven
by the preference of most households for seperate homes on large
blocks, which became and Australian cultural icon, as expressed in
literature, in films and on television. Suburbanisation continues to
dominate the development of Australia's big cities."
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From "Contextual History: part two. The city centres since World War
Two."
http://www.ahc.gov.au/infores/publications/generalpubs/urban/part2-building.html
(Please see entire text for references cited)
"The development of the metropolitan areas as a whole--
suburbanisation-- also represents a theme of major significance to
city centres. Despite a long history of suburbanisation it was not
until the 1950s that the traditional close links between centre and
suburbs began to dissolve as new suburbs were built well beyond the
centre and its web of radial public transport routes. For example, the
Melbourne metropolitan area lay within 10 miles radius from the GPO in
1911 and contained around 260 square miles and it steadily but not
dramatically increased to 310 square miles by 1947. By contrast with
the gradual expansion of the prewar period this metropolitan area more
than doubled by 1954 and increased again to 812 square miles by
1961.223 Sydney's built-up area expanded from around 400 square
kilometres in 1945 to nearly 1 200 square kilometres in 1981."224
"A map of Brisbane at the census in 1971, published by the Cities
Commission (1975) and similar maps for the other capitals show how
today's city centre once comprised nearly the whole city with early
suburbs closely surrounding it. In succeeding phases suburban
development proceeded around these inner suburbs and also reflected
the trend towards coastal living. A map of the phases of metropolitan
development of Sydney show the suburbs surging far to the north, west
and south of the city centre since 1941.225 Yet the maps also show how
oriented most metropolitan areas remain to their city centres. For
example, in Brisbane the suburban centres of the early twentieth
century and the succeeding postwar centres form two concentric rings
around central Brisbane."
"City centre functions: shops, manufacturing jobs and professional
services were moved to new suburban locations. At the same time,
financial services and public administration intensified and extended
central business districts, partly as a consequence of rapid
metropolitan growth.226 Thus postwar suburbanisation had both positive
and negative effects on the city centre, increasing demand for
government and professional services and entertainment and promoting
the growth of office blocks but also hastening the decline of
retailing and residential use and destroying, along with old
buildings, an identity constructed over the previous century."
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From "Urbanisation Trends."
http://www.es.mq.edu.au/hsc/Lcity1/1.htm
Suburbanisation:
"A suburb is a section of the city whose main role is residency for
workers of the (Hutchinson and Hirsch, 1996). Suburbanisation is the
process whereby residential sections of the city expand. Three factors
which encourage suburbanisation are population growth, lifestyle
values which promote large houses with gardens, and car-dependent
transport."
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From "Giving Our Communities Their Best Chance - Customised Responses
to Globalisation," by Marcus Spiller, Alex Hrelja. SGS Economics and
Planning. RAPI National Congress (2001)
http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:TxEgg9ZEFwkJ:www.rapi.com.au/conference2001/spiller.pdf+site:.au+history+of+suburbanisation+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"In the 1950s and 1960s, agriculture and mining (in the regions)
continued to earn the nation its wealth from abroad whilst the
domestically focused and protected manufacturing sector continuedto
employ a large and growing share of people (in the cities).
Suburbanisation dominated the settlement patterns of the nation; this
was in part driven by growth of manufacturing jobs in the suburbs."
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From "Urban Transport: Which Way?" by Mimi Wang, Sean Abel and Barbara
Sheppard.
http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/geogenvst/carey/cars.pdf
"There are several explanations for the demise of public transport.
The main reason appears to be the suburbanisation and decentralisation
of modern cities. In the 1940s the central business district (CBD) was
the major focus for work, shopping and entertainment. Since then,
cities have become increasingly decentralised, with more work and
leisure time spent in the suburbs. Moriarty (1994, p. 108) identifies
the cause for this as being the shift towards cars, along with the
changing preference from rail transport to road.With a public
transport system that remains radially focused on the CBD, popular
opinion is likely to remain in favour of private transport."
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I hope the above references are helpful. If you are unable to gather
enough information from these online sources, I will be happy to
investigate some books that might be of help. Just let me know.
Good Luck!
umiat-ga
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