Glenwaverley Estate 1929

This is in the Melbourne Herald,  13 March 1929, p. 13. I am particularly interested in the quarter-circle park behind the 'Home Sites' on the corner of Union and Springvale Road. It appears that the thoroughfare to the park, though unlabelled, is for rear access to the business sites and the park itself, and would not be commonly referred to as a road (certainly it has not been given a name or a road/street designation).

I'm also fairly confident that this 'park' did not exist. The site today is a cinema and shopping complex.

East Keilor Sustainability Street Community Garden Open Day 23 October 2016

'North Road Reserve', Avondale Heights, Victoria

See yesterday's post. We visited this one a few minutes later; as you can see, it was somewhat waterlogged. 

Below: I have no idea what this is. One thing I can tell you is, it is not a box on a pole - it's solid wood.

Reserve bounded by Ridge Drive, Glamis Drive, The Crossway, Avondale Heights, Victoria

In preparation for a journal article we are writing with Robert Freestone about the Milleara Estate, Victoria Kolankiewicz (who is getting pretty ubiquitous in this blog, frankly) and I visited a few of the southern Milleara reserves on 7 October 2016. What we found was not massively impressive in terms of use or value, no offence intended towards anyone concerned. More to follow. You can see this particular space here.

Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada

Thank you to Victoria Kolankiewicz for drawing this to my attention. See it on google maps here. Its Wikipedia page, which barely touches on its design, is here.

‘The Kitimat development entails a water reservoir of 350 square miles, a power station of over two million horsepower, an aluminium smelter with the planned production capacity of 500,000 tons a year, and a new town with the ultimate population of 50,000. This gigantic development, undertaken by the Aluminium Company of Canada, is located in a wild, fjord-like, mountainous region about 400 miles north of Vancouver.

‘Kitimat is not a company town. Its plan, designed by Meyer, Whittlesey and Stein, shows approximately 12 residential neighboroods surrounding a clearly defined Town Center. The authors have defined the neighborhood as “an intergrated residential area having its own local facilities for daily shopping, leisure time activities and health, and having at least one elementary school.”

‘The designers used their experience with the American Green Belt Towns and, particularly, with Radburn, as evidenced by their use of the superblock. The superblock they describe as an area surrounded but not crossed by auto-mobile traffic arteries, having an internal park “core” or “greenway” with a system of pedestrian paths. In this green core are located the schools and the recreational areas. Paved paths and road underpasses connect the houses through green spaces to the focal Neighbourhood Centre.’

V. Joseph Kostka, Neighbourhood Planning Author published (Sponsored by the Appraisal Institute of Canada) Winnipeg 1957 p. 35