Barmera, South Australia

Above, Charles Reade's Barmera Garden City (draft plan no. 8) from November 1920; below, 'Current Barmera plan' with the dotted line showing area of the Reade plan. Note that the two plans are oriented differently; Reade's plan has north at the bottom. From Christine Garnaut, 'Making Modern (River) Towns: town planning and the expansion of the Upper Murray irrigation area' Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, 31, 2003 pp. 69-80.  

As Christine Garnaut's excellent 2003 article illustrates, Charles Reade's time as South Australia's first state town planner has a remarkable legacy. It is not immediately obvious in the original plan above, but it is in the second illustration, that Reade included (or at least: there came to exist!) two internal reserves in his plan for Barmera. I am tempted to write that neither are particularly happy places today, but this is perhaps an ignorant assessment. They don't look like much fun on google map. The reserve within Barwell Ave, Sturt St, Bice St and Scott Ave is now a car park - see it here.  The southern reserve is in slightly better shape in a manner of speaking - at least, it has some kind of foliage on it. It's between Tonkin Ave, Fowles St, Farmer St and Manuel Road, and can be viewed here.