The Kew Asylum has been a dominant feature of Melbourne’s built environment for over 100 years. In addition to the visual impact it has made on Melbourne’s skyline it has been very much a part of the psychological landscape of the collective imagination of the city’s inhabitants. Despite this, comparatively little has been written about its impact on society, and almost nothing has been recorded in any comprehensive sense, about its occupants or inmates. This dissertation aims to go some way towards redressing this, not with a broad sweep institutional biography, but with an intimate portrait of the asylum’s earliest days. Covering a time frame of less than 50 years, this thesis adopts a multi-theoretical approach in order to illuminate the different facets of asylum life with the maximum clarity. The thesis contains several themes, some of which overlap and interweave in order to examine the complexity of institutional life.

I och med de ökade hoten från klimatförändringar har fler städer börjat arbeta med att minska sin påverkan på klimatet. Ett exempel på det är attsträva efter koldioxidneutralitet. Denna studie syftar till att undersöka vad som städer framställer som problem i arbetet med att uppnåkoldioxidneutralitet. Utifrån framing och Bacchis (1999) analysverktyg om problemframställningar samt tidigare forskning om städersklimatarbete, har de tre städerna Linköping, Köpenhamn och Melbourne undersökts. Dokument om städernas arbete med koldioxidneutralitet haranalyserats genom kvalitativ textanalys. Studien visar att energi och avfall är två frågor som ofta uppmärksammas och problematiseras av städermedan konsumtion och individers beteende lämnas utanför problemframställningen. / As a result of the increasing threats from climate change more cities have started to work with decreasing their climate impact. One example ofthis is to pursue carbon neutrality. This study aims to examine what the problem is represented to be by cities in their work to achieve carbonneutrality. Based on framing and Bacchi’s (1999) analyzing tool about problem representations, as well as previous research on cities and climatechange, the three cities Linköping, Copenhagen and Melbourne have been examined. Documents concerning carbon neutrality in the cities havebeen analyzed by the use of qualitative text analysis. The study shows that energy and waste are two issues that often are highlighted andproblematized by cities while consumption and the behaviour of individuals are excluded from the problem representation.

This study investigates the occurrence and chemical composition of leachate at Clayton South and Brooklyn Municipal waste landfills in Melbourne, Victoria. Both are ‘modern’ municipal waste landfills, being engineered and managed consistent with current regulatory requirements. These landfills accept only putrescible and solid inert waste, but not soluble chemical, hazardous, liquid or prescribed industrial waste. (For complete abstract open document)

This dissertation reveals the method by which architects in Melbourne have designed the single family house in the period 1945 - 1975 and thus extends Robin Boyd's attempt in 1947 to describe a regional architectural manner for the state of Victoria. Critical to the study is an initial outline of a local tradition of condoned eclecticism in 1930s domestic architecture and the presence of an evolving housing stock that was mixed rather than predominantly that of the single family house. Modernism in 1930s Melbourne architecture is found to be part of a compositional tradition rather than emerging from ideological imperatives. Robin Boyd’s idea of a so-called Victorian Type is also found to be part of this compositional tradition. The study then examines the suppressive effect of World War 2 on this tradition and its eventual re-emergence during the ensuing three decades.The circumstances which encouraged the adoption of the language of modern architecture and its subsequent effects are examined via prevailing architectural themes. These include: the post-war Victorian Type; structural experiment; geometry; the influence of the East Coast Bauhaus and Frank Lloyd Wright; the continuing idiosyncratic assimilation and reformulation process (albeit under the guise of the Modern Movement) which described the modern house in Melbourne of the 1950s and 1960s; the renewed interest in texture, exposed materials and compartmented planning in the 1960s; and the eventual re-emergence of artifice in the composition of space, form and detail and a renewed variety and intricacy in choice of texture and materials. (For complete abstract open document)

This doctoral dissertation seeks to investigate the reasons that lay behind the rise, success and decline of the Italian-run migrant workers� organisation FILEF during the 1970s in Melbourne by reviewing and discussing some significant historical events. It does so in light of the existing literature, archival data and a string of oral accounts gathered from former and current key FILEF members and collaborators. It is hereby offering a better understanding of an otherwise poorly researched area of the Italian-Australian left-wing grassroots organisations in post-war Australia. The thesis has been divided into two parts, including introduction and conclusion. Part One (Chapters 1-5) reviews the historical and political background (in both Italy and Australia) that favoured the establishment of FILEF in Australia, including Melbourne, in the early 1970s; Part Two (Chapters 6-9) presents an analysis of the historical development and socio-political role of FILEF Melbourne between 1972 and 1980. Chapter One reviews the theoretical context, the representation of the history of FILEF in previous publications, primary and secondary sources, the research strategy and methodology. Chapters Two and Three anchor the history of FILEF Melbourne to their respective background in Italy and Australia. That is, Chapter Two examines the post-war Italian emigration and its politicising by the Italian Left; Chapter Three focuses on the postwar emigration of Italians to Australia and outlines a profile of the Italian-Australian community. Chapter Four maps the route of the Italian-Australian Left in the 1950s and 1960s, that is from Italia Libera to the Lega Italo-Australiana. Chapter Five reviews the circumstances that led the establishment of the PCI in Australia respectively. Chapter Six examines the origins and grassroots activism of FILEF in Melbourne in the 1970s, especially by looking at three areas of activity: migrant press, migrant welfare and migrant politics. Chapter Seven researches the vulnerability of FILEF to the pressures of conservative quarters by recounting the �Italian communist move in� (1975) and the federal funding cut (1976) episodes. Chapter Eight, thoroughly revisits the Salemi case (1977), while Chapter Nine explores the effects of the case and Salemi�s deportation on FILEF towards the end of the 1970s.

‘Frendin Architecture – A project on the practice of an architect’ uses the realm of architectural design to engage with the design of architectural practice. With only a limited network of contacts and practical experience, without commissions in the pipeline or a portfolio of works, this project approaches the city as a site for architectural office and explores strategies for establishing an architect’s practice.  At the core of the thesis is a belief that a viable strategy for establishing a practice is to locate a potential within a given area, unlock that potential within a given site and position a practice at the heart of the potential with which we wish to engage. This statement translates into three key strategies of the practice that have been explored in the threefold structure of the project: firstly, as participants in and builders of society, to live, work and build locally; secondly, to appeal to a common condition by working within the framework of a typology; and thirdly, to initiate projects on a small scale and as an enlightened architectural developer as a means of establishing trust and generating clients. As such, with the main objective to design an architectural practice, the initial stages of the project aimed to formulate a series of strategies for establishing, operating and marketing an architectural practice, these strategies and the speculative process of the project were developed then within the context of a given area and the framework of a typology. / ‘Frendin Arkitektur - Ett projekt om en arkitekts praktik’ använder arkitektonisk design för att designa en arkitekts praktik. Med endast ett begränsat nätverk av kontakter och praktisk erfarenhet, utan uppdrag i sikte eller en portfölj av byggt arbete, angriper detta projekt staden som en plats för en arkitekt byrå och utforskar strategier för att etablera en arkitekts praktik. I grunden till avhandlingen ligger en tro på att en hållbar strategi för att etablera en praktik är att finna en potential inom ett visst område, låsa upp denna potential inom en given plats och etablera en arkitekt byrå i hjärtat av den potential som vi önskar arbeta med. Detta uttalande leder till tre viktiga strategier som har undersökts i den trefaldiga strukturen för projektet: för det första, att som deltagare i och konstruktörer av samhället, att leva, arbeta och bygga lokalt; för det andra, att vädja till en allmän situation genom att arbeta inom ramen av en typologi; och för det tredje, att som en medveten arkitektonisk fastighets utvecklare initiera projekt i liten skala - som ett sätt att skapa förtroende, generera kunder och ett generellt intresse inom det bredare samhället. Med det huvudsakliga målet att utforma en arkitekts praktik syftade de inledande faserna av projektet att formulera en rad strategier för att etablera, driva och marknadsföra en arkitekt byrå. Dessa strategier och projektets spekulativa process har därefter utvecklats inom ramen av ett visst område och en specifik typologi.

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