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A FEAST of KNOWLEDGE Meet the Chef Behind Melbourne Knowledge Week’S Pop-Up Restaurant
YOUR CITY OF MELBOURNE MAGAZINE APRIL - MAY 2018 A FEAST OF THE ART OF CODING KNOWLEDGE PINT-SIZED APP WIZARD HEADS TO ARTPLAY TOP CHEF REIMAGINES THE FUTURE OF FOOD WORDS FOR THE WISE BOOK CLUB GEMS AND SECRET STUDY SPOTS MELBOURNE.VIC.GOV.AU CONTENTS CEO’S MESSAGE FEATURES 03 SMART PARK TAKES SHAPE Find out what’s next for University Square 08 A FEAST OF KNOWLEDGE Meet the chef behind Melbourne Knowledge Week’s pop-up restaurant 12 WORDS FOR THE WISE Explore top study spots and book tips from our librarians 15 THE ART OF CODING Marvel at eleven-year-old coding wizard Yuma Soerianto REGULARS CEO Ben Rimmer tries his hand at selling the Big Issue with vendor Tukuf 02 CEO’S MESSAGE Melbourne is Australia’s fastest Liveability is one of the key reasons why 04 YOUR SAY growing city, driving the nation’s Melbourne has a great culture of home- Browse social media highlights and economy by contributing almost grown start-ups. We can’t be complacent a little love from our friends a third to all growth in gross about continuing to protect and invest in Melbourne as a place for people. It is domestic product. 07 CITY NEWS our responsibility as a council to nurture and grow our knowledge precincts, and Meet our Melbourne Knowledge Fellow Our talent pool also runs deep. The City to continue to enhance the quality of our of Melbourne is home to 227,000 students, public realm. 10 EVENTS CALENDAR nearly 40,000 of whom are international students, demonstrating our city’s global We know that a nimble approach – trialling Find out what’s going on near you popularity. -
Historic Electric Signage in Victoria
HISTORIC ELECTRIC SIGNAGE IN VICTORIA A Study of Historic Illuminated Signs prepared for Heritage Victoria and the City of Yarra November 2002 h e r i t a g e A L L I A N C E A.B.N. 23308 903 866 heritage consultants level 3 / 55 Flemington Road, North Melbourne 3051 03 9328 5133, fax 9328 5144 email: [email protected] CONTENTS CONTENTS .......................................................................................................................i ILLUSTRATIONS & DRAWINGS ....................................................................................ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.................................................................................................iii 1.0 INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................1 1.1 The Commission.....................................................................................................1 1.2 Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................1 1.3 Limitations of the Study ...........................................................................................1 1.4 Abbreviations...........................................................................................................1 2.0 CONTEXTUAL HISTORY.......................................................................................2 2.1 The Development of Electric Signage .....................................................................2 2.2 The Heyday of Neon: 1930s -
Thematic History: a History of the City of Melbourne's Urban Environment
ATTACHMENT 3 AGENDA ITEM 5.1 FUTURE MELBOURNE COMMITTEE 12 June 2012 Final 5 May, 2011 Context Pty Ltd 2011 Project Team: Helen Doyle, Principal historian and author Natica Schmeder & Louise Homan, architectural history Chris Johnston, Project Manager Jenny Walker, Support Report Register This report register documents the development and issue of the report entitled A History of the City of Melbourne’s Urban Environment undertaken by Context Pty Ltd in accordance with our internal quality management system. Project Issue Notes/description Issue Issued to No. No. date 1422 1 Preliminary draft 05/11/10 Robyn Hellman 1422 2 Draft Thematic 14/12/10 Gisele History Masclef 1422 3 Final Draft Thematic 21/12/10 Gisele History Masclef 1422 4 Final City of 5/5/2011 Gisele Melbourne Thematic Masclef Environmental History Context Pty Ltd 22 Merri Street, Brunswick 3056 Phone 03 9380 6933 Facsimile 03 9380 4066 Email [email protected] ii CONTENTS PREFACE V ABBREVIATIONS VIII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VIII INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1: ABORIGINAL COUNTRY 4 CHAPTER 2: PROMOTING SETTLEMENT 5 CHAPTER 3: SHAPING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE 11 CHAPTER 4: GOVERNING, ADMINISTERING AND POLICING THE CITY 26 CHAPTER 5: BUILDING A COMMERCIAL CITY 38 CHAPTER 6: CREATING A FUNCTIONING CITY 47 CHAPTER 7: APPRECIATING AND ADAPTING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT 58 CHAPTER 8: LIVING IN THE CITY 63 CHAPTER 9: WORKING IN THE CITY 71 CHAPTER 10: SHAPING CULTURAL LIFE 74 CHAPTER 11: CARING FOR THE SICK AND DESTITUTE 82 CHAPTER 12: EXPRESSING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL OPINION 86 CHAPTER 13: ENJOYING THE CITY 92 CHAPTER 14: ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE 101 CHAPTER 15: PRESERVING AND CELEBRATING THE CITY’S HISTORY 106 CONCLUSION 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY 1 1. -
Whelan the Wrecker Notes
1. ALEXANDER’S/NICHOLAS BUILDINGS 25/3 PicDemolishing Monahan’s BuildingsHumorously referred to by their employer as ‘Whelan’s Birds,’ the men who are now engaged in demolishing Monahan’s Buildings, Swanston street, seem to have no ‘nerves’, but fearlessly pick the bricks from under their feet, four stories above the pavement. [Two workmen atop steel girder above front parapet, picking at brickwork] (Argus, 10/3/25, p.9) 1926 Buildings of the 1920s include Nicholas Building in Swanston Street (1926) by Harry Norris… (Wilson & Sands, Building a City, pp. 146-7) 1930 Monahan’s Building, which stood on the site of Nicholas Building, had base walls six feet in thickness. The present building, constructed in steel framing to the third floor, has columns of 2.5in base, with little or no wall between them. Because of the high cost of steel in Melbourne, reinforced concrete has been employed from the third floor, where the column thickens to 3ft. (Argus, 13/3/30, Camera Supplement p. 3) 32/1 Mr Whelan said that the demolition work on the site of the Nicholas Building was a bigger feat than [Stewart Dawson’s] for his team. (Herald, 1/1/32) 32/1 Then came… Monahan’s building in Swanston Street, where the Nicholas building now stands, and hundreds of others in various parts of Melbourne. (Sun, 9/1/32) 39/5 WW tendered for demolition (£300) of ‘the buildings known as “Alexanders”’tender accepted. (Letter dated May 1939SLV/WW, 65/2) 39/5 Liquor signs that twinkled from the wall of a city building at travellers journeying across Princes Bridge along Swanston Street will be seen no more.