Cosmopolitan Heritage in a Multicultural Society: Ethnic Communities and the Built Environment in Australian Cities and Regional and Rural Areas

Funding: 2004: $15,000
2005: $30,000
2006: $30,000
2007: $15,000

Project Member(s): Collins, J.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Australian Research Council (ARC Linkage Projects)
National Trust of Australia (NSW) (National Trust of NSW)
The National Trust of Australia (WA)
Queensland Department of Premiers and Cabinet (Department of Premiers and Cabinet,Qld Government Partner Funds)
National Trust of South Australia

Start year: 2005

Summary: This project investigates the historical and contemporary contribution of minority ethnic communities to the built environment of Australian cities and towns. This is significant because this story of the impact of minority ethnic communities on the built environment has been ignored in the Australian immigration debate. The focus is on regional and rural areas as well as cities. Expected outcomes include: a stocktake of ethnic heritage; an insight into social aspects of the built environment; an understanding of how ethnic heritage relates to community relations; and an investigation into ethnic precincts and the links between ethnic heritage and increased tourism.

Publications:

Collins, J 2020, Cosmopolitan Place Making in Australia Immigrant Minorities and the Built Environment in Cities, Regional and Rural Areas, 1st, Springer Nature, Singapore.
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Keywords: ethnic heritage, ethnic precincts, rural and regional, community relations, social value, tourism,

FOR Codes: Ethnicity and multiculturalism, Preserving the built environment, Socio-cultural issues, Socio-Cultural Issues in Tourism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Migrant Development and Welfare, Heritage and Cultural Conservation, Race and Ethnic Relations, Tourism Policy, Conserving the Historic Environment, Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism, Heritage, Tourism services, Community services

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.