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Cosmopolitan Place Making in Australia

Immigrant Minorities and the Built Environment in Cities, Regional and Rural Areas

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Examines the historical and contemporary impact of minority ethnic communities to the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas
  • Investigates what we call ethnic precincts such as Chinatown as a clustered form of Australia’s ethnic community heritage
  • Looks at the places and spaces they create Australia’s rural and regional areas

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
  2. Place Making, Migration and the Built Environment: An Introduction

    • Jock Collins, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Kirrily Jordan, Hurriyet Babacan, Narayan Gopalkrishnan
    Pages 1-32
  3. Immigrant Minorities and the Built Environment in New South Wales

    • Jock Collins, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Kirrily Jordan, Hurriyet Babacan, Narayan Gopalkrishnan
    Pages 33-161
  4. Immigrant Minorities and the Built Environment in Queensland

    • Jock Collins, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Kirrily Jordan, Hurriyet Babacan, Narayan Gopalkrishnan
    Pages 163-217
  5. Immigrant Minorities and the Built Environment in Western Australia

    • Jock Collins, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Kirrily Jordan, Hurriyet Babacan, Narayan Gopalkrishnan
    Pages 219-383
  6. Minority Immigrants and the Australian Built Environment

    • Jock Collins, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Kirrily Jordan, Hurriyet Babacan, Narayan Gopalkrishnan
    Pages 385-405
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 407-409

About this book

This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas. The emphasis is on the changing social use of these buildings – places of worship, ethnic clubs and community associations, immigrant restaurants and retail outlets, museums, memorials and landmarks and other places and spaces created by immigrant communities – rather than on their architectural merit. These places and spaces are sites of bridging and bonding social capital, of social interaction between immigrant communities and their local communities. In both the Australian cities and the ‘bush’ (an Australian colloquial term for non-metropolitan dwellers), the book investigates how the places built and used by minority ethnic communities have transformed Australian life in complex and sometimes contradictory ways. In Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, the book investigates the historical development ofChinatowns and their contemporary dynamics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, Australia

    Jock Collins

  • Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia

    Branka Krivokapic-Skoko

  • Australian National University, Galston, Australia

    Kirrily Jordan

  • James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

    Hurriyet Babacan

  • Social Work and Human Services, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia

    Narayan Gopalkrishnan

About the authors

Jock Collins, Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School,Australia.

Branka Krivokapic-Skoko, Associate Professor, School of Management and Marketing, CSU, Australia.

Dr. Kirrily Jordan, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU, Australia.

 Professor Hurriyet Babacan, Rural Economies Centre of Excellence, JCU, Australia.

Narayan Gopalkrishnan, Cairns Institute, JCU, Australia. 


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Softcover Book USD 119.99
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