In fact, this reserve is not signposted but the name seems logical. This space is essentially a playground space with, as our informant Nici points out, some random fruit trees. There is also a pathway running right through the space.
A record of field trips and other explorations of a particular urban design element - the internal reserve - a 'pocket park' surrounded on all sides by residential housing but accessible by pedestrian pathways from the street. They are exclusive, secluded, sometimes neglected, sometimes celebrated, suburban spaces. This blog welcomes contributions: comments, images, memorabilia. Please email nicholsd@unimelb.edu.au
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Victoria Cross Reserve North, Macleod, Vic
There are two internal reserves in the Victoria Cross Estate which we estimate at being constructed around 1920 almost certainly to the design of Saxil Tuxen, Melbourne's foremost town planning surveyor/advocate of the 1920s-30s. As is clear from the google map linked above, the northern reserve has been reworked somewhat at one end, where what appears to be housing for the elderly has been built on the site of what our informant Nici tells us was once a (plant) nursery. As is clear from these photographs, the reserve is largely 'empty' (of structures, seating or play equipment) but does feature some pleasant stands of trees and forms a minimally maintained space for passive recreation.
Above and below, a small two-door structure at the south-western corner of the housing development mentioned above, part of which forms the northern path out of the space.
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