Behind the scenes
The politics of planning Adelaide
by Michael Llewellyn-Smith
FREE | 2012 | Ebook (PDF) |听978-1-922064-41-7听| 400 pp
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Behind the Scenes听examines planning in the City of Adelaide听from 1972 until 1993 within the historical framework of听City/State relations from 1836 when the Province of South Australia was founded.
During this 21-year period, the City had its own planning and听development control legislation separate from the rest of the听State. Dr Llewellyn-Smith examines why this situation came听about, why it continued for this particular period and why it听ceased in 1993 when the separate legislation was repealed听and the City became part of the State system under the new听Development Act 1993.
Behind the Scenes听includes original interviews with many of听the key individuals in the City and State who played influential听roles during this period. Dr Llewellyn-Smith himself was the听City Planner from 1974 until 1981 and then the Town Clerk/Chief Executive Officer of the Adelaide City Council from 1982听until 1993: this book, then, is both a work of scholarship and听an insider鈥檚 account.
With a joint foreword by The Hon. Jay Weatherill MP, Premier听of South Australia, and The Rt Hon. the Lord Mayor of听Adelaide, Mr Stephen Yarwood.
Reviews
'Here's a new Adelaide resource that pulls together the technical and sometimes volatile political threads of town planning during a specific period and is a significant historical reference.'
John Bridgland,听, March 2013
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'Within the trim exterior we are offered an (obviously) authoritative account of this "micro" planning regime in action, sitting cheekily in its State setting, with predictable (but perhaps not entirely so) tensions and trade-offs.'
Neil Parkyn,听Planning Theory and Practice, 9 May 2013.