City Research - Cityfutures
Thematic Heritage study of
Urban and Town Planning
E-survey of PLaces of Planning Heritage
What sites and places connected to urban and town planning around Australia do you believe have National Heritage values?
In April 2006 the Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Heritage commissioned a team from the UNSW City Futures Research Centre led by Dr Robert Freestone to undertake a thematic heritage study of urban and town planning achievements to provide a sound theoretical context for identifying and assessing nominations for the National Heritage List.
Places included on the National Heritage List have an important role in helping to tell the wider story of Australia 's culture and history. The List is Australia 's most prestigious heritage recognition and currently includes iconic places like the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the Sydney Opera House.
The study will cast a wide net to identify places that may best express Australia 's planning achievements. There appear to be relatively few places formally acknowledged as having significance in planning history terms at any scale compared to sites of, say, architectural, engineering and landscape importance.
This electronic-survey component provides an opportunity for planners, built environment professionals, historians, and other interested parties to nominate places of potential significance.
The survey provides the opportunity to identify places of any kind which you consider may have some heritage value of any degree for whatever reason. While the ultimate goal of the study is to identify places of truly national significance, places nominated can be of any type, scale, from any era (from the late 18th century through to the very recent past), considered important for any reason, and of existing or no current heritage status. Please make a nomination regardless of whether you think anyone else might! The questionnaire provides some guidance to help you briefly describe a particular place but also opportunity to expand your comments.
Contact us
Additional information and questions should be directed to
planningheritage@fbe.unsw.edu.au
or
Dr. Simon Pinnegar
City Futures Research Centre
Faculty of the Built Environment
University of NSW, Sydney NSW, 2052
p: 02 9385 6042
f: 02 9385 5935
s.pinnegar@unsw.edu.au
+61 2 9385 4799
