Land Classification And Utilization In The Australian Capital Territory: A Preliminary Survey
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: all four fold-out maps (monthly rainfall graph; land classification; land utilization; feature map) are in mint condition, no tears, no creases. Boards: good with faded spine. Binding remains intact; small insect damage on rear endpaper;
A rare and historically significant government publication, Land Classification and Utilization in the Australian Capital Territory: A Preliminary Survey presents one of the earliest systematic geographical assessments of the ACT region, produced under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia's Department of the Interior. Authored by H. W. H. King — a credentialled geographer holding an M.A. and Diploma in Education, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, as well as a teacher at Canberra High School and lecturer at Canberra University College — this methodical survey classifies, maps, and analyses the land use patterns of the nascent national capital territory with scholarly precision and administrative purpose. The work stands as a fascinating primary document of mid-twentieth-century Australian nation-building, illustrating how federal authorities sought to understand and plan the physical landscape of Canberra and its surrounds during a formative period of the territory's development. King's approach is rigorous and empirical, grounding policy-relevant conclusions in careful geographical observation — a blend of academic authority and practical governance that was characteristic of the era. For historians, geographers, and collectors of Australiana, this preliminary survey offers an invaluable window into how the young Commonwealth conceptualised and shaped its own capital landscape.
Author: H. W. H. King
Format: Hardback
Published: 1946, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra (Department of the Interior)
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: all four fold-out maps (monthly rainfall graph; land classification; land utilization; feature map) are in mint condition, no tears, no creases. Boards: good with faded spine. Binding remains intact; small insect damage on rear endpaper;
A rare and historically significant government publication, Land Classification and Utilization in the Australian Capital Territory: A Preliminary Survey presents one of the earliest systematic geographical assessments of the ACT region, produced under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia's Department of the Interior. Authored by H. W. H. King — a credentialled geographer holding an M.A. and Diploma in Education, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, as well as a teacher at Canberra High School and lecturer at Canberra University College — this methodical survey classifies, maps, and analyses the land use patterns of the nascent national capital territory with scholarly precision and administrative purpose. The work stands as a fascinating primary document of mid-twentieth-century Australian nation-building, illustrating how federal authorities sought to understand and plan the physical landscape of Canberra and its surrounds during a formative period of the territory's development. King's approach is rigorous and empirical, grounding policy-relevant conclusions in careful geographical observation — a blend of academic authority and practical governance that was characteristic of the era. For historians, geographers, and collectors of Australiana, this preliminary survey offers an invaluable window into how the young Commonwealth conceptualised and shaped its own capital landscape.