Valley Stream, New York - Clarence Stein plan

From his Toward New Towns for America 1951. This wasn't constructed. 

Plympton, South Australia

There is a saying about throwing good money after bad, and it's applicable to a world beyond money i.e. I did visit this very nondescript space (probably in 1999 - the same time I visited Hectorville) and take ten (10!) photographs of it (including two of the playground equipment), and I then assiduously filed those pictures away, and then I dug them out again recently, scanned them (on a rather lurid setting - sorry) and presented them here for you.

The reason for my ambivalence is simply that it's such a nondescript space. Adelaide is notoriously a dry city, often very hot in Summer, and it can be difficult to get things like trees to grow there. This space is too 'open' for my taste, maybe that's just me. 

Here is the original submitted plan, from Frank Parsons of Adelaide, dated 30 November 1942. You'll note by comparison with the google map that Lot 123 has been widened, and the pathway into this reserve - Lot 122 - narrowed considerably as a result.

One intriguing element is the little 'indent' at the south-west corner of the plan which is clearly Parsons throwing his hands up in the air at the impossibility of the subdivisional jigsaw. I photographed it - see above.

Hectorville, South Australia

It appears from this registered plan that this small triangle of land was lot 65 of a 65-lot subdivision in Hectorville, a suburb of Adelaide, lodged on 31 October 1925 by surveyors Barry and Moyle. 

 
I can't be absolutely certain (bad record keeping - what can I say, I was learning the hard way that I wasn't always going to remember everything I ever did) when I visited this site, though I think it was probably 1999, when I was attending the Urban History Planning History conference.

View it on google maps here.

Bradford, UK 1913 competition entries

Apologies for the poor quality of these images, from an old photocopy - I really should find the original and rescan with up-to-date technology. This in any case is from Town Planning Review vol 4, 1913-14, p. 334.

Bluegum Park, Youngtown, Tasmania

I visited Bluegum Park on the 9 February 2002.

The three pictures I have to hand show a diverse landscape.

Here it is in my Launceston Atlas (1979). Interesting array of street names, I can't imagine what links those eight, though I suppose more likely Jubilee and Brooklyn roads are earlier roads and the tree-named roads came later. Just call me Sherlock.

It's on google map here.

Noone Street, Clifton Hill, Victoria

An unusual example of the internal reserve for Melbourne: slotted into a public housing block in Clifton Hill, very close to the onramp of the Eastern Freeway. See it in situ here. 

Not the world's most delightful internal reserve but it still does have functional play equipment and at time of my visit, a very happy dog - just visible in the final picture below - and its owner. 

Hypothetical

See variations and other perspectives here