Overview
- Brings new knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into built environment contexts
- Tackles important discussions about the broader urban landscape, not just rural or coastal landscapes
- Includes a range of case studies of architectural, landscape and corridor projects
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Country
- Design Studies
- Design with Country
- Australia
- Urban development
- Aboriginal values
- Aboriginal living cultural heritage
- Heritage planning
- Archaeology
- Built environment
- Geelong
- Wadawurrung Country
- Case studies
- Country Plan
- Urban planning
- Material Culture
- Planning for Country
- Aboriginal heritage
- First Nations
- Urban studies
About this book
Planning for Urban Country addresses a major gap in knowledge about the translation of Aboriginal values and Country Plans into Australia’s built environment contexts. How do you ‘heal’ Country if it has been devastated by concrete and bitumen, excavations and bulldozing, weeds and introduced plants and animals, and surface, aerial and underground contaminants? How then do Aboriginal values and Country Plan aspirations address urban environments? In this book, David S. Jones explores the major First Nations-informed design and planning transformations in Djilang / Greater Geelong since 2020. Included are short-interlinked essays about the political and cultural context, profiles of key exemplar architectural, landscape and corridor projects, a deep explanation of the legislative, policy and statutory precedents, opportunities and environment that has enabled these opportunities, and the how Wadawurrung past-present-future values have been scaffolded into these changes.
Reviews
— Honorary Professor Norm Sheehan, School of Education, the University of Queensland, Australia.
‘Planning for Urban Country: Taking First Nations Values into Future Urban Designs is a challenging and insightful review of the major First Nations-informed design and planning transformations that have been unfolding around Djilang (Geelong) in the last 5 years. The book offers a raft of examples, demonstrating that ‘care for Country’ is not just ‘past’ and ‘present’ but can involve the positioning of ‘future’ ‘care for Country’ and its expression in design narratives and planning. Djilang now offers a national exemplar of how Australian First Nations values can be successfully incorporated into urban design, architectural, landscape architectural and statutory/strategic planning projects, and not simply in the ‘care for Country’ rural and regional landscapes.’
— Associate Professor Phillip B. Roӧs, School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, Australia
David Jones’ timely book demonstrates alternative ways to engage First Nations Peoples, specifically Traditional Owners, in conventional planning and design processes. It offers a way forward based on the solid foundations of long held and tested First Nations’ cultural values. This ground-breaking book should be a bible for all professionals who have, are, or intend to, work in the landscape architecture, architecture, urban design, construction, and planning fields. It is also a “must read” for all the decision makers responsible for our urban environments.’
— Emeritus Professor Darryl Low Choy, School of Environment & Science, Griffith University, Australia
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr David S. Jones is Professor (Research) at Monash University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia. With academic and professional qualifications in urban planning, landscape architecture and cultural heritage, he has taught, researched and published extensively across these areas over the last 30 years, including in Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planning for Urban Country
Book Subtitle: Taking First Nations Values into Future Urban Designs
Authors: David S. Jones
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7192-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7191-6Published: 24 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-7194-7Due: 24 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-7192-3Published: 23 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 309
Number of Illustrations: 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Cultural Heritage, Public Policy, Landscape Architecture, Arts, Archaeology