World City?

Shirley Fitzgerald

doi:10.5130/sj.v4i1.3653

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Published: Oct 23, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5130/sj.v4i1.3653

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Sydney History Group, urban history, local history, Australian history, world cities

Shirley Fitzgerald

Sydney City Council

Abstract

When I began to study Australian history the idea that there was anything worth saying about our cities, in a theoretical sense, was only just beginning to gain traction. There were works of what is called ‘local history’ about particular places, but back then a theorised study of the urban condition did not loom large in Australian historiography. Certainly in my undergraduate years in the 1960s the debates and flash points in Australian history did not include any conscious focus on cities as discrete sites of discourse.

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2013): From the Ground Up: People and Places in Sydney's Past

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Sydney History Group

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