Last week while perusing many issues of the Broadmeadows and Keilor Observer I came across a series of reports on the fate of the so-called Triangle Estate. It's here, if you want to have a look. Irritatingly, although I photographed all these news items, most of them seem to have disappeared - they may show up somewhere - I hope so because this sentence looks like it was written by a technological idiot. Anyway, none of what I had already read made this particular report any more explicable. Below are some images of this space, which as you can see contains a car park and a community centre, taken on 13 January 2011.
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
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017
Unnamed, Harcourt Street North Melbourne
A tiny courtyard space behind walk-up flats that look like the work of Housing Commission of Victoria or (more likely) its successor, the Office of Housing. View it here.
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