Green Bans, Red Union: The saving of a city

by Meredith Burgmann

Revised edition of a landmark book. At the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and politicians but delighting many in the wider community, the members of the NSW Builders Labourers' Federation risked their jobs to preserve buildings, bush and parkland. The direct impact of this green...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742235409
• ISBN13: 9781742235400
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"