Designing bush landscapes: history and place in Eltham and Castlecrag

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1. Peter Timms, Australia's Quarter Acre: The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden (Carlton, Victoria: Miegunyah Press, 2006), p. 60.

2. Tim Bonyhady, ‘The Bush Becomes the Garden’, in Peter Timms (ed.), The Nature of Gardens (St. Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999), pp. 136–158.

3. See Richard Aitken and Michael Looker, The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2002), p. 348.

4. Marion Mahony Griffin, The Magic of America, p. 110, electronic edition, http://www.artic.edu/magicofamerica/moa.html (accessed 24 August 2010).

5. Deborah Bird Rose, Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2004), p. 34.

6. ‘Judge Likens Gippsland Logging to the Somme’. The Age (15 September 2009), http://www.theage.com.au/environment/judge-likens-gippsland-logging-to-the-somme-20090914-fnvg.html (accessed 23 August 2010).

7. Peter H. Hoffenberg, ‘Landscape, Memory and the Australian War Experience, 1915–18’, Journal of Contemporary History, xxxvi/1, 2001, p. 116.

8. ‘The Wizard of Castlecrag’. The Brisbane Courier (21 May 1927), p. 23.

9. James Weirick, ‘The Castlecrag Experiment of Walter and Marion Griffin’, in Robert Fresstone (ed), The Australian Planner: Proceedings of the Planning History Conference, Held in the School of Town Planning, 13 March 1993 (Kensington, NSW: University of New South Wales, 1993), p. 183.

10. ‘Woman's Outlook’. The Mercury (14 November 1929), p. 6.

11. ‘Castlecrag Homes’, pp. 3, 18, Eric Nicholls Collection, Box 2, MS 9957, National Library of Australia [NLA].

12. ‘Affidavit in Greater Sydney Development Association vs. Rivett (1929)’, in Dustin Griffin (ed.), The Writings of Walter Burley Griffin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 234.

13. ‘Concrete at Castlecrag’. Highways, iii/4, 14 August 1930, p. 39, in Griffin, Writings of Walter Burley Griffin, p. 237.

14. See, Katie Holmes’ article in this issue.

15. ‘Castlecrag Homes’, p. 7.

16. Tim Bonyhady, ‘The Bush Becomes the Garden’, p. 137.

17. See the articles by Bill Gammage and Richard Broome in this issue.

18. ‘Castlecrag Homes’, p. 3.

19. The Australian Home Builder, August 1922, pp. 51–52, in Meredith Walker, Adrienne Kabos and James Weirick (eds), Building for Nature: Walter Burley Griffin and Castlecrag (Castlecrag, NSW: Walter Burley Griffin Society Incorporated, 1994), p. 13.

20. ‘Occupational Conservation’, Australian Wild Life, i/2, October 1935, pp. 24–27, in Griffin, Writings of Walter Burley Griffin, pp. 249, 248.

21. Ashley Hay, Gum (Potts Point, NSW: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002).

22. Bill Gammage, The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War (Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin, 1990), p. 228.

23. Jacqueline Manuel, ‘“We are the women who mourn our dead”: Australian civilian women's poetic responses to the First World War’, Journal of the Australian War Memorial, ixxx, November 1996, p. 4, cited in Tanja Luckins, The Gates of Memory: Australian People's Experiences and Memories of Loss and the Great War (Fremantle, WA: Curtin University Books, 2004), p. 34.

24. Marion Mahony Griffin, The Magic of America, p. 112, http://www.artic.edu/magicofamerica/moa.html (accessed 24 August 2010).

25. C. C. D. Brammall, ‘He Built the Australian Bush into his Homes: American Architect's Dream Suburb was Twenty Years Before Its Time’, 1947, typescript manuscript, Eric Nicholls Collection, Box 2/I/13, MS 9957, NLA., pp. 5, 1.

26. Nora Cooper, ‘Creating a New Type of Suburb in Australia: The Walter Burley Griffins and their Experiments in Home Building at Castle Crag’. The Australian Home Beautiful, 1 October 1929, Eric Nicholls Collection, Box 2/I/13/Item 4, MS 9957, NLA, p. 15.

27. Edgar Deans, in Edgar Deans and Frank Duncan, ‘Memories of Early Castlecrag’ (Place of publication unknown: Walter Burley Griffin Society, 2006), p. 6, http://www.griffinsociety.org/Lives_and_Works/pdf/EdgarDeansandFrankDuncan.pdf (accessed 26 August 2010).

28. ‘Woman's Outlook’, p. 6.

29. Rob Freestone and David Nichols, ‘Recreation, Conservation and Community: The Secret Suburban Spaces of Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin’, Studies in Australian Garden History, i, 2003, p. 9.

30. Walter Burley Griffin, ‘The Architects’ Burden’, in The Magic of America, p. 101, cited in Alisdair McGregor, Grand Obsessions: The Life and Work of Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin (Camberwell, Victoria: Lantern, Penguin, 2009), p. 396.

31. William J. Lines, Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia (Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1991), p. 197.

32. Lines, Patriots: Defending Australia's Natural Heritage (St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 2006), pp. 12, 20. The Snowy River Hydroelectric Scheme was a major infrastructure project, which provided employment for the European migrants and refugees who came to Australia in numbers after the war.

33. Drew Hutton and Libby Connors, A History of the Australian Environment Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 93.

34. Interview with Roy and Joyce Kingston [pseudonyms], 21 August 2006, Macleod.

35. Joy Damousi, Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 5.

36. Judith Trimble, ‘Myth and Reality: The Garden in Australia’, Australian Garden History, vi/5, March/April 1995, p. 14.

37. Diana Snape, Australian Native Gardens: Putting Visions into Practice (Port Melbourne: Lothian, 1992), p. 31.

38. ‘Eltham Up in Arms Over Tree-felling’. The Herald (hand-dated 1 August 1958); ‘Notices Go Back on Cut Trees’, The Herald (hand-dated 7 August 1958), in Peter Glass Papers, MS PA99/87, State Library of Victoria [SLV].

39. Knox, We Are What We Stand On: A Personal History of the Eltham Community (Eltham: Adobe Press, 1980), p. 100.

40. Richard Aitken and Michael Looker (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (South Melbourne: Oxford University Press in association with the Australian Garden History Society, 2002), p. 348.

41. ‘Build Among Our Trees Not Over Them’ Peter Glass Papers, MS PA99/87, SLV.

42. Walling, The Australian Roadside (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1952); Harris, Australian Plants for the Garden: A Handbook on the Cultivation of Australian Trees, Shrubs, Other Flowering Plants and Ferns (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1953).

43. Gordon Ford, with Gwen Ford, The Natural Australian Garden (Hawthorn, Victoria: Bloomings Books, 1999), p. 7.

44. Knox, We Are What We Stand On, p. 63.

45. Ford and Ford, Natural Australian Garden, p. 9.

46. David Nichols, ‘Post-war Suburban “Reconstruction” and the Democratised “Frontier” in the Civic and Recreational Buildings of Beaumaris and Park Orchards’, Australian Planner, xxxxiv/3, September 2007, pp. 38, 40; V. Tarrant, ‘The Public Education Enterprise of the Port Philip Conservation Movement 1965–75’ (M.Ed. Thesis; University of Melbourne, 1984), p. 40.

47. Knox, We Are What We Stand On, p. ix.

48. Knox, Alternative Housing: Building with the Head, the Heart and the Hand (Sutherland, NSW: Albatross Books, 1980), p. 33.

49. Knox, Living in the Environment (Canterbury, Victoria: Mullaya Publications, 1975), pp. 63, 30, 64.

50. Knox, We Are What We Stand On, p. 101.

51. James Weirick, ‘Beyond the Garden Suburb: The Mythopoetic Landscape of Castlecrag’, Planning History, xvii/1, 1995, pp. 13–18.

52. Knox, Alternative Housing, p. 33.

53. Knox, We Are What We Stand On, p. 5.

54. Knox, Living in the Environment, p. 17.

55. ‘Living Among Trees’, first of two screenplays, in Peter Glass Papers, MS PA99/87, SLV.

56. Allaine Cerwonka, Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in Australia (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), p. 122.