Ian Willis
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Ian Willis deposited Sydney’s Customs House – a means of collecting taxes on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Taxes and dying. Two certainties in life, and that was certainly the case in colonial Sydney. For more than 150 years Customs House has provided the means of collecting taxes on the movement of goods
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Ian Willis deposited A new horizon on Sydney’s urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases. in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoJournalist Jeff McGill recently wrote an opinion piece in the Campbel/town Macarthur Advertiser with the heading ‘Nothing “yucky” about fibro cottages’. He continued that ‘Macarthur’s first big housing development was Campbelltown’s St Elmo Estates of the 1950s, guided by Neil McLean, a much-loved developer’.1 The McLean St Elmo land releases were…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited A new horizon on Sydney’s urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases. in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoJournalist Jeff McGill recently wrote an opinion piece in the Campbel/town Macarthur Advertiser with the heading ‘Nothing “yucky” about fibro cottages’. He continued that ‘Macarthur’s first big housing development was Campbelltown’s St Elmo Estates of the 1950s, guided by Neil McLean, a much-loved developer’.1 The McLean St Elmo land releases were…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited A new horizon on Sydney’s urban frontier: the St Elmo land releases. on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago
Journalist Jeff McGill recently wrote an opinion piece in the Campbel/town Macarthur Advertiser with the heading ‘Nothing “yucky” about fibro cottages’. He continued that ‘Macarthur’s first big housing development was Campbelltown’s St Elmo Estates of the 1950s, guided by Neil McLean, a much-loved developer’.1 The McLean St Elmo land releases were…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited ‘Just like England’, a colonial settler landscape in the group
Settler Colonialism on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoEarly European settlers were the key actors in a place-making exercise that constructed an English-style landscape aesthetic on the colonial stage in the Cowpastures district of New South Wales. The aesthetic became part of the settler colonial project and the settlers’ aim of taking possession of territory involved the construction of a c…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited ‘Just like England’, a colonial settler landscape in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoEarly European settlers were the key actors in a place-making exercise that constructed an English-style landscape aesthetic on the colonial stage in the Cowpastures district of New South Wales. The aesthetic became part of the settler colonial project and the settlers’ aim of taking possession of territory involved the construction of a c…[Read more]
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Ian Willis changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Ian Willis changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Ian Willis changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
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Ian Willis deposited ‘Just like England’, a colonial settler landscape on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
Early European settlers were the key actors in a place-making exercise that constructed an English-style landscape aesthetic on the colonial stage in the Cowpastures district of New South Wales. The aesthetic became part of the settler colonial project and the settlers’ aim of taking possession of territory involved the construction of a c…[Read more]