Dry Zones, 1st ed. 2019
Planning and the Hangovers of Liquor Licensing History

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This book tells the story of local-level controls on liquor licensing (?local option?) that emerged during the anti-alcohol temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It offers a new perspective on these often-overlooked smaller prohibitions, arguing local option not only reshaped the hotel industry but has legacies for, and parallels with, questions facing cities and planners today. These range from idiosyncratic dry areas; to intrinsic ideas of residential amenity and neighbourhood, zoning separation, and objection rights. 

The book is based on a case study of temperance-era liquor licensing changes in Victoria, their convergence with early planning, and their continuities. Examples are given of contemporary Australian planning debates with historical roots in the temperance era ? live music venues, bottle shops, gaming machines, fast food restaurants. Dry Zones uses new archival research and maps; and includes examples from family histories in Harcourt and Barkers Creek, a district with a temperance reputation and which closed all its hotels during the temperance era. 

Suggesting ?wowsers? are not so easily relegated to history books, Taylor reflects on tensions around individual and local rights, localism and centralism, direct democracy, and domestic violence, that continue to be re-enacted. Dry Zones visits a forgotten by-way of licensing history, showing the early 21st century is a useful time to reflect on this history as while some temperance-era controls are being scaled back, similar controls are being put forward for much the same reasons.
Chapter 1: Introduction - Walter’s Hotel, 1882.- Chapter 2: The Talbot Hotel, 1883 - A Tavern in the (Teetotal) Town.- Chapter 3: The Live and Let Live Hotel, 1876-1912 - Local Option in Victoria.- Chapter 4: The Old England Hotel, 1922 – Hangovers.- Chapter 5: The Highland Society - Hair of the Dog.- Chapter 6: Epilogue - “HAPPY NYE, 1984”.- Appendices.
Elizabeth Jean Taylor is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT University, Australia.

Using new archival research and historical GIS techniques to book map the rise and influence of local level controls on alcohol in Victoria

Offers a new perspective on place-based alcohol controls by arguing that the temperance movement of the late 19th and early 20th century used nascent planning laws to legitimize local popular political power, and the control not only of alcohol but of land use and disorder more broadly

Identifies the hangovers of temperance and local option laws: legacies for the emergence of land use zoning, and for alcohol and land use controls in Victoria today