Davison, Graeme

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Davison, G. 2001. The European City in Australia Journal of Urban History 27 (6): 779-773.

A reading into the Anglo-Saxon model of a city. Touches on how (some) Australian cities resembled Englan cities so much you could have sworn you left Liverpool but arrived in Liverpool. "The Australian city, he went on to suggest, was a provincial adaption of predominantly English styles and ways of life." But was the continental city was dismissed as a threat on English values when essentially but "why, some observers asked, had London and Liverpool become the style setters for cities whose sunny climate and freer social relations made them potentially more Italian than British?"

The reding discusses how in today's Australian city has thrown off much of the poitical agenda bought foward by the English all those years ago but challenges why it cannot also overthrow some of the social aspects also, allowing a greater cosmopolitan to exist. it then refers back to the views that overthrow this opinion/view.