"The sale of Crown Land was the principal source of government revenue for funding emigration and public works. An orderly system of land survey, therefore, was essential to promote sales and to simplify the recording of ownership. The South Australian survey system was the chief means by which the Wakefieldian ideals of the colony's initial promoters were perpetuated."

'Terra Nullius' no more

yo! awesome mapping, global social justice art projets. Australian-flavored. thx k. [bc: I'm going to put anything aussie in your for box.]

response "to the difficult and often costly heritage protection laws": "superimpos [a] 1:1 scale photo of the original dwelling onto a glass facade"

Australia: "It's a wonderful nation, the greatest on Earth." Gotta knock over a few more tin-pots to get that superlative, buddy.

"boundary line across South Australia at an approximate rainfall boundary indicating the edge of the area suitable for agriculture."

residencies on the rural fringe of Perth

architecture/urban planning/legos from the antipodes (via bldgblog)

i want to have his babies