Historical information
Discusses American technological advancement and American tendency to look forward; Australia is 15 years behind and should be more forward looking; Australian private affluence and public poverty, motor cars, expressways and roads. America is described as looking to a future beyond cars; Boyd proposes that Australia skips expressway building. Discusses tourism, the Australian accent, imagining 2000AD, Archigram's Plug-In City, anti-city, integrate bush into the city - the gumtree aesthetic.
Physical description
Typewritten (c copy), quarto, 29 pages. (Two copies plus one incomplete version with 13p)
Inscriptions & markings
Incomplete one contains pencil edits
Subjects
- future,
- america,
- henry ford,
- automobiles,
- road development,
- destruction of old buildings,
- destruction of nature,
- tourism,
- great barrier reef,
- australian accent,
- globalisation,
- isolationism,
- canada,
- new zealand,
- archigram,
- athens,
- los angeles,
- suburbia,
- heidelberg school,
- diggers,
- robin boyd,
- manuscript
