helen B armstrong

Major cities of the world are characterised as either growing cities, such as in Asia and Australia, or shrinking cities as in Europe and North America.  Growing cities are destroying their rural edge while shrinking cities are creating a new rural urbanism, often in their urban centre. This paper describes the instrumentality of design and its enabling function in achieving new typologies for peri-/inter-urban rural land with key drivers being state-of-the-art technology and mapping techniques. Peri-urban economics require new land-tenure models and innovative forms of agriculture that synthesise agriculture, nature conservation, infrastructure and communities. The paper also looks at small-scale community innovations including a number of initiatives in Penrith, Western Sydney, such as Out & About in Penrith which explored community activities in local open space, Penrith as a Regional City Garden with diverse models of urban agriculture and the Cooling the Commons project which explores the role that forms of urban agriculture might play in adapting urban environments for liveability in a climate-changed future. Findings from these projects reveal the potential of mobile infrastructure and temporary urbanism for Western Sydney.

From the 1990s onwards, Western, ‘Eurocentric’ approaches within the notion of minimal intervention for preserving material ‘authenticity’ have been challenged by international charters as well as a number of researchers (Byrne, 2004; Howe and Logan, 2002; Taylor, 2004). Stemming from such a fresh conservation thinking, the edited volume, Asian Heritage Management: Contexts, Concerns, and Prospects, delves into deep understanding of complex issues facing cultural heritage management in Asia. This well-integrated book is the result of the combined work of scholars and practitioners who generally are from Asia. Structured in three main parts (Part I, Contexts; Part II, Concerns; and Part III, Prospects), the book contains the Introduction and 17 main body chapters and ends with an Epilogue.

It has generally been considered that after white settlement landscape traditions in Australia have been derived from the British ideals of the 18th century. This paper will explore an Australian paradox: that while there was ruthless and aggressive removal of trees in the rural ...

The richness of knowledge generated in design studios and creative works is part of an exciting new realm of research. While the rationalist hegemony seeks to tighten the notion of research within the positivist paradigm, scholars in the creative arts are building on the fertile ...

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It has generally been considered that after white settlement landscape traditions in Australia have been derived from the British ideals of the 18th century. This paper will explore an Australian paradox: that while there was ruthless and aggressive removal of trees in the rural ...

These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. Some works are not in either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles ...

Abstract: In Australia, the crisis of unbridled development as continuous linear coastal conurbations, predominantly residential, has resulted in alarming losses of productive rural land. Urban crises, however, can also provide opportunities. Originally explored in the ...

Understanding the ways people respond to place in an inter‐cultural context is a rich and rewarding process. The knowledge‐discovery journey can involve different modes of transport and multiple and various routes. The qualitative vehicle, although soft in its steering and often circular in direction, provides opportunities to explore landscapes that one rarely sees in single‐trajectory intellectual travel. Using hermeneutics and

Recently much has been written about hermeneutics. the theory of interpretation, and its application in design theory and practice. Traditionally hermeneutics developed as a means of practical translation of difficult religious texts and later of complex ethical and legal ...

The richness of knowledge generated in design studios and creative works is part of an exciting new realm of research. While the rationalist hegemony seeks to tighten the notion of research within the positivist paradigm, scholars in the creative arts are building on the fertile ...