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The Old England Hotel, 1922: Hangovers

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Beginning with recent reports that Melbourne’s two “dry zones” had been relegated to the history books, in this chapter Taylor proposes instead that contemporary urban planning continues to bear traces of the temperance movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These range from idiosyncratic dry zones and covenants; to ideas of residential amenity, separation and zoning; and objection rights of property owners. Taylor argues temperance ideas are still recognisable in the ways cities like Melbourne are organised. Characterising local option controls as a form of “planning before planning”, the chapter critically examines how liquor licensing, zoning and metropolitan planning converged over the twentieth century in Victoria, reinforcing similar ideas around alcohol and land use and reshaping hotels into car and parking-oriented formats. Examples are given of planning conflicts—live music venues, packaged liquor outlets, fast food restaurants—with historical roots in local option politics of the temperance era.

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Taylor, E.J. (2019). The Old England Hotel, 1922: Hangovers. In: Dry Zones. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2787-2_4

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