LEGEND CANBERRA , AUSTRALIA

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MOUNT AINSLIE
LAND AXIS

MARKET CENTRE
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LAKE BURLEY GRIFFIN

WATER AXIS

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STATE CIRCLE
Ainslie to Capital Hill.
• Municipal axis, now Constitution
Avenue, ran from City Hill to
Russell.
CAPITAL CIRCLE • Lines drawn through these points
BRISSBANE AVE. and Capital Hill formed the
PARLIAMENT
PERTH AVE. National Triangle.
• Griffin’s water axis ran from Black
Mountain to Jerrabomberra
Wetlands.
• It was an implied axis and its
significance was to provide a variety
CAPTIAL HILL of activities and natural and urban
places adjacent to the water.

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 RESIDENTIAL
• The existing residential population in the City CANBERRA , AUSTRALIA
is relatively low with 514 people.
• Residents live in one or two person LEGEND
households.
• The profile of residents appears consistent
ADMINISTRATION
with the general trends for higher density
residential accommodation in city centers.
COMMERCIAL

RESIDENTIAL

MOUNT AINSLIE
• Mount Ainslie borders on the inner suburbs
of Campbell, Ainslie and Hackett  and is named in
honour of James Ainslie, a 19th-century settler who
was the overseer on Duntroon, a large property in the
area.
AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL
The Australian War Memorial is Australia's
national memorial to the members of its armed
forces and supporting organisations who have
died or participated in wars involving the
Commonwealth of Australia.
MARKET CENTRE
• Commercial activities are predominantly
located in Canberra House, the Melbourne
Building, and around Hobart and Farrell
Places.
• One of the principles of the Spatial Plan is to
attract business and additional residents.
PARLIAMENT
• The building was designed by
CIVIC CENTRE
• Canberra Centre is a large shopping centre located in the northern Mitchell/Giurgola & Thorp Architects and
section of the Canberra City Centre City Centre, Australian Capital built by a Concrete Constructions and John
Territory, Australia, being the largest centre within the Australian Capital Holland joint venture.
Territory. • The main foyer contains a marble staircase
• Canberra Centre is currently 207,668 m² in size with over 380 speciality and leads to the Great Hall, which has a large
retailers, encompassing an ownership merge with the ACT Government. tapestry on display.
LANDUSE PLANNING IN
CANBERRA
• The concept is to disperse land use
for residential settlement purposes in
distinct towns, linked by a system of
peripheral parkways and
decentralise population growth from
the central cities.
• Dispersal planning provides no
traffic congestion in one area and
promoting local business and
employment opportunities for
people in the areas, upon which
economic growth is based.
• This refers to a situation where
people in a community can reduce
journey to work times and achieve
other transport and economic
benefits.
• Space requirements for residential
development, recreational facilities
become a major factor for planning
bodies to consider.
• Building new homes on hills or
slopes is more problematic than
those on flat sites; it needs to take
into account the gradient for sewer
and sewerage systems and driveway;
and of course, the cost of the
buildings are almost twice as much
as normal ones.

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• Breaking down ‘superblocks’ with new streets and lanes to promote
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finer grain development, varied streetscapes and more sustainable built TRANSPORTATION
VERNAN CIRCLE form . PLANNING
• Establishing a consistent streetscape character along each street. • Major roads follow a wheel-
• Designing streets as corridors that cater for a range of city activities,
functions and uses.
and-spoke pattern rather than a
• Ensuring pedestrian movement is easy, safe and caters for all people, grid.
including the needs of people with disabilities. • Griffin's proposal had an
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