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Mit einem Fotoessay, wie die Menschen heute leben - in Wohnblocks, umgebauten Fabrikgeb uden, Vorstadtvillen, Strandh usern und auf Weing tern. Mit einer abschlie enden Betrachtung zur Entstehung des Asiatischen Urbanismus, der eine ganz neue Erfahrung im Interior Design schafft. Mit einem Stadtplan und einer Beschreibung zum unterschiedlichen Charakter bestimmter Bereiche und Bezirke Melbournes. Mit einer Liste aller  ffentlichen und kommerziellen Designprojekte, mit Adressen von Bars, Gesch ften, Restaurants, etc. Mit einer Liste der kompletten Kontaktadressen der zitierten Architekten und Designer. Das Buch erscheint zeitgleich mit der Er ffnung der Commonwealth Games in Melbourne im M rz 2006. 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Although British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had announced you've never had it so good on 20 July 1957, the full force of the post war economy lay ahead, and Jean Baudrillard's book 'The Consumer Society' was to be published in 1970. Cars did not yet dominate roads. In England, traffic jams hardly happened except in The New Forest on August Bank Holiday. Travel was an adventure for the young, and a 1957 book explaining how to do 'Europe on Five Dollars a Day' when six dollars equalled 20 shillings seemed targeted on wealthy Americans. That many shillings would last a week, as the soon to be students would discover. And most alien to how we live now, life was lived in analogue. The internet lay fifty years ahead. The boys had planned their journey in advance, plotting routes using a guide to the location of Youth Hostels, and having no guarantee that there would be a place in one until they arrived and knocked on the door. 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Maybe that is apt for what was a pilgrimage through a little of west European culture, a journey towards adulthood, spiritual only in that sense. Even then, the weight of the future pressed on what was said and recorded. We were 'such stuff as dreams are made on', and our 'little lives' beckoned. There are delights here. 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