The politics of building Adelaide

405 Pages·2012·6.09 MB·English

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Michael Llewellyn-Smith
Dr Michael Llewellyn-Smith was born and brought up in Wales and then educated
at Alleyn’s School, Dulwich. He won a Rhodes Travel Scholarship to Canada before
reading Architecture at Cambridge University under Professor Sir Leslie Martin.
Michael worked as an architect in the private sector in London and Melbourne
before teaching architecture at Sydney University where he also completed a Master’s
Degree in city planning. After working as a consultant on the City of Sydney Strategic
Plan 1971 he became the Chief Planning Officer and subsequently the Deputy City
Planner of Sydney. In 1974 Michael was appointed as the City Planner of Adelaide
and from 1977 until 1981 he was also a Commissioner of the City of Adelaide
Planning Commission. Michael served as the Town Clerk/Chief Executive Officer of
the City of Adelaide from 1982 until 1994 when he became the Managing Director
of Llewellyns International, an urban management consulting company. He worked
in Poland, Sri Lanka and South Africa and throughout Australia, particularly for
the City of Prospect. The State Government appointed Michael as the Presiding
Member of the Development Assessment Commission in 1999 and he served in
this position until 2007 when he became a full-time candidate for a PhD in the
School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University
of Adelaide. The degree was awarded in December 2010. Michael was elected as an
Area Councillor of the City of Adelaide in November 2010 for a four-year term. He is
a member of the joint City/State Capital City Committee and the Chair of Council’s
City Planning and Development Committee. Dr Llewellyn-Smith is a Life Member
of Local Government Managers Australia and a Life Fellow of both the Australian
Institute of Architects and the Planning Institute Australia. He is a Visiting Research
Fellow in the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at
the University of Adelaide.

Behind
the
scenes
The politics of planning Adelaide
Michael Llewellyn-Smith
Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Architecture,
Landscape Architecture and Urban Design,
the University of Adelaide
Published in Adelaide by
University of Adelaide Press
The University of Adelaide
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© 2012 Michael Llewellyn-Smith
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ISBN (paperback) 978–1–922064–40–0
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Project Editor: Patrick Allington
Cover design: Emma Spoehr
Cover image: Ross Bateup
Inside cover images courtesy of: Adelaide City Council: Heidi Linehan, heidiwho.com
Book design: Zoë Stokes
Paperback printed by Griffin Press, South Australia
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Abbreviations xii
Acknowledgements xv
Foreword xvi
Introduction 1
1 The background to the founding of Adelaide and South 11
Australia in 1836
2 The development of the City and State from 1840 until 39
1950 and the City/State relationship during this period
3 Changing attitudes to planning the City and State from 67
1950 until 1972
4 The establishment of the City of Adelaide Development 103
Committee and the introduction of Interim
Development Control
5 Planning in Sydney and the work of George Clarke 133
6 The City of Adelaide Planning Study 155
7 Converting the City of Adelaide Planning Study into a 197
City Plan
8 An innovative system of city planning from 1 March 207
1977
9 Changes in the ACC and the State, and the first 223
Heritage Study of the City