[Commlist] New Book: Modern Melbourne by Rod Giblett

Intellect is pleased to announce that /*Modern Melbourne: City and Site 
of Nature and Culture* 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/modern-melbourne>/, by Rod Giblett, is 
now available in ebook and paperback.

Melbourne, founded in 1835 among marshes and beside a sluggish stream, 
grew from wetlands into a world-class modern city. Drawing on a wide 
range of historical, literary and artistic sources, this book explores 
the cultural and environmental history of the city and its site. Tracing 
the city from its swampy beginnings in a squatter’s settlement nestled 
in the marshy delta of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers, Rod Giblett 
illuminates Melbourne through its visible structures and the invisible 
history of its site.

The book places Melbourne within an international context by comparing 
and contrasting it to other cities built on or beside wetlands, 
including London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Toronto. Further, it 
is the first book to apply the work of European thinkers and writers on 
modernity and the modern city – such as Walter Benjamin and Peter 
Sloterdijk – to an analysis of Melbourne. Giblett considers the 
intertwining of nature and culture, people and place, and cities and 
wetlands in this bioregional and ecocultural analysis. Placing the city 
in its proper bioregional and international contexts, /Modern Melbourne/ 
provides a rich historical analysis of the cultural capital of Australia.
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*_Table of Contents
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*1.* Australian Capital of Modernity

*PART I – City of Ghost Swamps
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*2.* Lost Wetlandscapes

*3.* Wasteland and Wetland

*4.* Found and Founded Wetlands

*5.* Lost Foundations

*PART II – Visible City, Invisible Site
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*6.* The Paris of the South

*7.* Nature on Display

*8.* Streams of Living Water

*9.* Modes of Transportation and Communication

*10.* Sport and its Homes

*11.* Culture on Display


Please visit our website for more information:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/modern-melbourne


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