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Place of a Nation? Canberra’s Central National Area in its Second Century
Catherin Bull

“In its earliest imaginings by politicians and bureaucrats, Canberra was imagined as a city – and a national capital – in a landscape. It was pictured using the graphic conventions of the time, as a place of remarkable formal harmony, and as a place to unify the perceived dichotomies in Australia between ‘the bush’ and the city, the uninhabitable and the habitable …”