Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Marking time: history and identity tn Sydney's Centennial Park

Marking time: history and identity tn Sydney's Centennial Park Abstract Centennial Park was opened in 1888 to mark a century of European colonization in Australia. From its conception, the park was popularly acclaimed as both a symbolic and a functional site. It became a venue for cricket, horse riding and golf, while park plantings carne to afford sylvan pleasures for the ‘tired-toiler’. Having marked the Centenary, its symbolic status was further enhanced on 1 January 1901. Then, 250 000 people gathered on the slopes of a natural amphitheatre to ‘witness’ the Federation of the former colorues with the swearing in of the first Governor General and the signing of an Australian Constitution. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Marking time: history and identity tn Sydney's Centennial Park

Download PDF
13 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/marking-time-history-and-identity-tn-sydney-apos-s-centennial-park-A4Rr0nRETt

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1943-2186
eISSN
1460-1176
DOI
10.1080/14601176.2001.10436271
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Abstract Centennial Park was opened in 1888 to mark a century of European colonization in Australia. From its conception, the park was popularly acclaimed as both a symbolic and a functional site. It became a venue for cricket, horse riding and golf, while park plantings carne to afford sylvan pleasures for the ‘tired-toiler’. Having marked the Centenary, its symbolic status was further enhanced on 1 January 1901. Then, 250 000 people gathered on the slopes of a natural amphitheatre to ‘witness’ the Federation of the former colorues with the swearing in of the first Governor General and the signing of an Australian Constitution.

Journal

Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 1, 2001

There are no references for this article.