Internal Reserves in Enskede, Stockholm, Sweden

Enskede is discussed in Thomas Hall's chapter on Sweden in his own edited book Planning and Urban Growth in the Nordic Countries Chapman and Hall, London, 1991 pp. 191-2. The work of Per Olof Hallman, it dates from 1908 and, Hall says, 'shows a striving for visual variety based on open places, winding streets and buildings as visual foci'.

Find it here. I visited this area on 20 August 2016 and discuss it here.

Langwarrin, Victoria

A plan which was apparently not carried out in this form (there are some similarities between this and what was built) proposed by developers Costain in, presumably, the late 70s.

Of course the particular interest for this blog is the playground space behind the shop(s) on the left, however note also the walkways at the end of the cul-de-sacs - this design was carried through.

The 'Langwarrin Design Team' credited included M. F. Johnstone and G. A. James with diplomas of Town and Regional Planning; B. W. Cooper and R. S. Smith, Architects (Smith also had a Town Planning Diploma) and J. Carson, engineer and P. A. Jones and P. J. Sterling 'Designers'.

Arcana: a search of the University of Melbourne's Architecture Building and Planning Library theses and other student work reveals that Johnstone and James were both studying at the University in 1968; Cooper was there in both 1964 and 1973; and Smith in 1969. 

See the development as built here.