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Article: From pillar to post: regional heritage and the erasure of Modernist architecture.
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- Rural Society
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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Because cities and towns do not develop regularly throughout time, their existing fabric bears evidence to what has been built, and of course to what has been pulled down. Sydney and Melbourne, for example, each possess pockets of styles the other does not have, reflecting their boom periods and the attitudes and tastes at the time of redevelopment.
Wagga Wagga displays a pattern of architecture suggestive of a country town of steady fortune. There are bank buildings and churches constructed in the 19th century. From the first half of the 20th century there remains a range of commercial buildings. Throughout, civic buildings were invariably built in a formal, ...