ABSTRACT

The fifteenth biennial conference of the Australasian urban history/planning history group was convened by the School of Architecture, Environments and Design at the University of Tasmania at Inveresk in Launceston, Tasmania from 5–7 February 2020. The conference was a stimulating event that included 56 presentations attended by more than 70 delegates who showed a genuine interest in extending fields of enquiry and supporting each other in the research environment. Reflecting the island location, the conference theme was ‘Edge Conditions: invented peripheries, hidden centres’, with the Welcome to Country and invited speakers revealing Launceston’s position as central to the Australian experience, rather than on the often imagined periphery. It was a lively and dynamic platform for the exchange of knowledge with a wide variety of presentations that approached the significance of edge and periphery in Australasian and global urban development with intellectually nimble interpretations, imaginative insight, and mutual encouragement.

摘要

2020年2月5日至7日，塔斯马尼亚大学建筑，环境与设计学院在塔斯马尼亚州朗塞斯顿市因弗雷斯克举行了第十五届澳大利亚城市历史/规划历史小组会议。该会议是一次激动人心的活动，其中包括70多位代表参加了56场演讲，他们对扩大研究领域和在研究环境中相互支持表示出真正的兴趣。反映岛屿位置的会议主题为“边缘条件：外围设备的发明，隐藏的中心”，“欢迎来到乡村”和受邀演讲者揭示了朗塞斯顿在澳大利亚经验中的核心地位，而不是通常想象的外围。