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Title Leisure space : the transformation of Sydney, 1945-1970 / edited by Paul Hogben and Judith O'Callaghan
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Pub., 2014
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing : UNSW Press, 2014
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Description 245 pages : illustrations (some colour), photographs ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction / Paul Hogben, Judith O'Callaghan -- 1. Leisure in Sydney during "the long boom" / Judith O'Callaghan, Paul Hogben -- 2. The changing face of travel : the modern tourist office / Russell Rodrigo -- 3. Double modernity : the first international hotels / Paul Hogben -- 4. Motels : the "ultra modern" experience / Judith O'Callaghan -- 5. Sky-high ambitions : Sydney's restaurants / Sing D'Arcy -- 6. Architecture, coffee and cocktails / Michael Bogle -- 7. "Big, bright, beautiful" : the new shopping centres / Shirley Daborn -- 8. The rise and fall of the Sydney drive-in / Robert Freestone -- 9. Golf : a changing landscape / Catherine Evans, Tracie Harvison -- 10. The leagues club : a working-class palace / Harry Margalit -- 11. Ethnic clubs : "the dream of tomorrow" / Dijana Alić -- 12. Informal modern : holiday houses / Maryam Gusheh, Catherine Lassen
Summary Dinner at Australia Square's revolving Summit Restaurant, sipping cocktails at the Chevron in Potts Point, hanging out at a Skyline drive-in ...Mid-twentieth-century Sydneysiders embraced leisure like never before. Leisure Space details the architecture and design that transformed their city - through its new hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping centres, drive-ins and golf courses, including landmark buildings such as the Gazebo and the Wentworth Hotel -- From cover verso
Analysis Architectural structure & design (Australia)
Architecture (Australia)
Australian
History of architecture & styles (Australia)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-238) and index
Subject Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Australia.
Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
Hotels -- Landscape architecture -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
Interior decoration -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
Leisure -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
SUBJECT Sydney (N.S.W.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021855 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Author Hogben, Paul, editor
O'Callaghan, Judith, 1954- editor
ISBN 9781742233826