Canberra's gardens, parks, and landscape: a bibliographical essay

摘要

Canberra has a rich historical literature— much of it unavoidably touching on the designed landscape—highlighted here in bibliographical form as a guide to further reading and research.Canberra's centenary year of 2013 celebrates the official naming of the Australian capital. But European settlement of the Limestone Plains dates from the 1820s. And of course the traditional owners, the displaced Ngambri people and other linguistic tribes, had lived here for many thousands of years. The key elements of the environmental matrix—to which settlement adapted—stretch back to antiquity. With a combination of grazing and demanding physical geography contributing to the area's treeless character, the making of Canberra's modern landscape is in large measure a history of regeneration.