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Over the past decade, the urban condition of Sydney has been increasingly discussed using the language of globalization. Yet the increasing sensitivity of global city theorists to issues of representation alert us to the problems of confidently using the global as an adjective to describe two nouns (Sydney and city) of uncertain mooring. We review various uses of these signifiers by territorially embedded and embodied actors (  journalists, academics and politicians), and suggest that to unreflectively label either the whole or some parts of this metropolis 'global' is a deeply problematic process.Pendant ces dix dernières années, la situation urbaine de Sydney a été traitée de plus en plus souvent en termes de mondialisation. Toutefois, la sensibilité accrue des théoriciens de la ville planétaire aux aspects de représentation attire l'attention sur les problèmes liés à un usage fiable de planétaire comme adjectif descriptif de deux noms (Sydney et ville) présentant un ancrage incertain. En étudiant plusieurs usages de ces signifiants par des acteurs intégrés et définis au plan territorial ( journalistes, universitaires et politiciens), l'article suggère que qualifier sans réfléchir tout ou partie de cette métropole de 'planétaire' est un processus extrêmement problématique.

Foreword / Alec Tzannes -- Introduction -- How to use this book -- Key -- The public project / Philip Thalis -- Forming Sydney / Peter John Cantrill -- Selected projects / Peter John Cantrill & Philip Thalis: A -- Millers Point & Sydney Cove; B -- Wynyard & Bridge Street; C -- The Domain & Botanic Gardens; D -- Sydney Square & Hyde Park; E -- Haymarket & Railway Square -- Comparative sections -- Comparative elevations -- Public projects and government patronage / Peter Mould -- Civic spaces and the city architect / Lisa Murray -- The squaring of Circular Quay / Lawrence Nield -- Sydney: nature, place and landscape / Craig Burton -- The Botanic Garden and Domain / Ian Innes -- The territorial floor: the role of architectural drawing / Stephen Collier -- Afterword / Clover Moore -- Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- Selected biographies: the shapers of Sydney -- Open competitions in Sydney: a provisional survey -- Author biographies -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

Structural reform through forced mergers has been a dominant feature of Australian local government for decades. Advocates of compulsory consolidation contend that larger municipalities perform better across a wide range of attributes, including financial sustainability. Although empirical scholars of local government have invested considerable effort into investigating these claims, no one has yet examined the performance of Brisbane City Council against other local authorities, despite the fact that it is by far the largest council in Australia. This paper seeks to remedy this neglect by comparing Brisbane with Sydney City Council, an average of six southeast Queensland councils and an average of 10 metropolitan New South Wales councils against four measures of financial performance over the period 2008–2011.

• Alderman McCarthy was too ill to come to the 69th meeting of the City Council, held today• The Committee of Ways and Means reports that the county appropriations for malaria infected districts and for the drainage of certain districts and public health improvements have proceeded through the Sanitary and Drainage Commission• The U.S. government requires that Charleston appropriate $10,000.00 and the County Authorities $20,000.00 against malaria• $5,000.00 was appropriated for use this year, and the same amount for next year, the money to be paid by the City Treasurer on warrant of the Government officers in charge or authorized agent, the work to be done under government supervision ; Newspaper article ; 9