- Title
- Ballarat. Australia: people, culture and place
- Creator
- Fayad, Susan; Reeves, Keir
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/156507
- Identifier
- vital:11427
- Identifier
- http://historicurbanlandscape.com/themes/196/userfiles/download/2016/6/7/wirey5prpznidqx.pdf
- Identifier
- ISBN:
- Abstract
- Ballarat is best known as an exemplar mid-19th century Victorian gold rush city. It is located in the western region of the State of Victoria in Australia and is of state-wide importance being the largest inland city in the state and a major driver of regional growth and development. Ballarat is a city of communities, home to many diverse peoples, each contributing their own culture, ideas and aspirations to the city’s identity. Ballarat’s story is one of layered change over millions of years: the natural landscape formed 500 million years ago, whilst modern Indigenous people, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung, have deep connections to this ancestral country spanning back at least 50,000 years. Ballarat’s urban heritage and diverse community is more recent: it is one of the world’s most substantial and intact mid-19th century historic gold rush cities and one of the most important mass migrations of people during the search for gold. The intensity of this time is most evident in central Ballarat with the city’s urban form established during the first 20 years of the gold rush. Today, the city is considered the capital of Western Victoria and its key points of difference are its regional location and distinctive cultural identity. Ballarat is renowned for its intact historic streetscapes of public and commercial buildings, grand to humble housing, civic spaces, gardens and plantings. It is also acknowledged for its great lifestyle, significant cultural institutions and much loved calendar of festivals and events.
- Publisher
- UNESCO
- Relation
- The HUL Guidebook: Managing Heritage in Dynamic and Constantly Changing Urban Environments a Practical Guide to UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape Chapter 5 p. 20-26
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Historic sites; Historic buildings; Urban landscape architecture
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