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The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies

By: Alexandra Crosby Jun 06 '22 Date: June 6, 2022 Comments: 0

Civic ecologies are stewardship activities that combine care for the environment and care for place. The Green Square Atlas of Civic Ecologies shares stories of environmental champions who live and work in Sydney’s Green Square precinct, along with simple tips to green and nourish your neighbourhood no matter where you live. The Green Square Atlas is […]

Remapping heritage and the garden suburb: Haberfield’s civic ecologies

By: Alexandra Crosby Aug 09 '19 Date: August 9, 2019 Comments: 0

This article, published in Australian Geographer, presents work from 7 Conversations in Haberfield. Abstract: Gardens in Australia are considered an important site of heritage maintenance and negotiation for their capacity to materialise transformations in everyday life, design, lifestyles, demographics, environment, as well as social and cultural practices. In the case of conservation areas, gardens tend […]

Spontaneous gardens of migrants plants: a banana grove, taro, papaya and sweet potatoes growing along the rail tracks

Migrant gardens, rogue plants and inner city imaginaries in Sydney, Australia

By: Ilaria Vanni May 20 '18 Date: May 20, 2018 Comments: 0

In April we presented Migrant Gardens, a video essay at the Biennal Meeting of The Society for Cultural Anthropology, Displacements. The conference engaged with different kinds of displacements, as it explains on its website: Displacements are in the air: episodes of profound political upheaval, intensified crises of migration and expulsion, the disturbing specter of climatic […]

Made in Marrickville: Enterprise and cluster dynamics at the creative industries-manufacturing interface, Carrington Road precinct

By: Alexandra Crosby Aug 31 '17 Date: August 31, 2017 Comments: 0

Alexandra Crosby co-authored a report on Carrington Road, an area of Sydney’s Inner West Mapping Edges has been exploring in our research on disturbed landscapes in industrial zones of the city. The report is part of a broader project: ‘Urban Cultural Policy and the Changing Dynamics of Cultural Production’. Sydney is one of three Australian […]

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