DEVELOPMENT PRESSURES AND HERITAGE IN THE PERTH CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT, 1950–90 |
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| Authors: | Jenny Gregory |
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| Institution: | University of Western Australia
Kate O'Shaughnessy undertook some of the research for this paper during the period that I was contracted by the City of Perth to write City of Light: a History of Perth Since the 1950s (2003). This research was supported under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP0557958). |
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| Abstract: | This article examines the remaking of Perth's Central Business District (CBD) during the 1950–90 period. It traces the establishment of a modernist development ethos in Perth's planning, outlines the inadequacy of the City's planning regulations, and analyses the impact on St George's Terrace, the city's main commercial thoroughfare. The City Council was largely incapable of restraining excessive development and the extension of its system of plot ratios encouraged manipulation to increase the height of developments. Several important historic buildings were demolished because there were no legal means of safeguarding the city's heritage until 1990. |
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| Keywords: | N9 R52 O21 D73 1950–90 built environment city planning heritage Perth plot ratios urban development |
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