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MINERS' COTTAGES
In: Australian economic history review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business & social history, Band 50, Heft 2, S. 162-177
ISSN: 1467-8446
The major visual reminder of Victoria's nineteenth‐century gold rushes is the thousands of miners' cottages, which remain a significant part of the housing stock of former mining towns. This article traces the evolution of these modest structures that were adopted to solve the pressing problem of providing affordable and quickly constructed housing for gold miners once the alluvial rushes were over. Simple construction methods combined with cheap land on which to build allowed miners to construct and own their own homes to an extent not achieved elsewhere by manual workers in the developing world in the nineteenth century.
FROM MANUFACTURING ZONE TO LIFESTYLE PRECINCT: ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN INNER MELBOURNE, 1971–2001
In: Australian economic history review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business & social history, Band 49, Heft 1, S. 52-69
ISSN: 1467-8446
Deindustrialisation, decline in manufacturing employment, gentrification, and the regeneration of inner urban areas characterized the experiences of many Western cities during the late twentieth century. In North America and Europe, economic and urban historians have studied these profound changes, but not so in Australia. This paper charts the decline of manufacturing in Melbourne's inner suburbs in the 1970s and 1980s and its replacement by, firstly, small‐scale manufacturers catering to local niche markets, and later by 'warehouse‐style' residential development.
Infrastructure, technology and change: An historical perspective
In: Discussion Papers, 94/04
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