| Main Title: |
Governing the metropolis : politics, technology and social change in a Victorian city: Melbourne 1850-1891 / David Dunstan. |
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| Author: |
Dunstan, David, 1957-, author.
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| Imprint: |
Carlton, Vic : Melbourne University Press, 1984. |
| Collation: |
362 p. : ill., bib. p346, index, hbk ; 24 cm. |
| Subject: |
Melbourne (Vic. : City). Council
Port of Melbourne
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW)
Local government
Docks
Gas industry
Trams and tramways
Sewers, sewage and sewerage
Greater Melbourne [Naarm] (Vic.) (Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Countries)
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| ISBN: |
0522842763 |
| Notes: |
Contents: Introduction: the metropolis and local government p1. The State and colonization - the city as an object of government p23. The origins of Melbourne's decentralized system of local government p42. Ideal and reality in local politics p73. The role of the Town Clerk p93. Crisis in the public health - the origins of a sphere of urban public administration p121. The Harbor Trust (Docklands) - the problem of the port p152. Gas wars p182. The tramway (trams) question p207. The origins of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) p233. A twentieth century postscript: the Board of Works, the City Council and the persistent idea of a greater Melbourne council p289. Appendix: Councillors of the City of Melbourne 1860-1890 p313..
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