Kent M. (reader2098) reviewed Landscape Planning for a New Australian Town (Developments in landscape management and urban planning) on
McCoy effectively and imaginatively guides you through the complex process of breathing life into a highly innovative new addition to Canberra Australia's brilliant Y plan concept for idealized regional development. It is unlikely that one would ever fully realize the crucial role a motivated landscape architect plays in the evolution of our built environment unless they were to read this well constructed account of an incredible adventure for the Tuggeranong planners. Kudos Mr.McCoy for creating what will most certainly become a classic in landscape architectural literature.
Many people I have talked to ,who have read this book ,consider it the most comprehensive and revealing description of the crucial role a landscape architect plays in developing idealized environments at the mega scale as this project most certainly is. The new city of Tuggeranong is the southernmost satellite city of the world renowned Canberra Y plan which in itself is a highly creative solution for expanding Canberra's population upwards to 2 million people by the end of the 21st century.
The Tuggeranong strategy plan attracted a great deal of interest when it was first circulated on the international scene in the 1960's because it placed strong emphasis on designing people into this city from the getgo. Nineteen distinctly different communities averaging 20-25,000 population each have been imaginatively integrated into a common frame of transportation,schools, open space and commercial development unlike anything yet seen in large scale regional development. A very good read if your one of the many planners out there who are urgently looking for alternatives to the current incoherent sprawl that passes for regional growth.
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6 april 2011
The author, Kent McCoy, imaginatively takes you along on a grand adventure into the complex world of mega scale urban design and why landscape architects play such a vital role in this heady milieu. This well documented work revolves around an idealized new satellite city immediately south of Australia's mountain capitol Canberra. This behemoth, dubbed Tuggeranong, will ultimately provide a home for 375,000 current and future Aussies by 2050 and was planned and built from scratch and you'll be there from the get-go.
Tuggeranong is the largest of the three satellite towns that currently comprise Canberra's Y plan. This innovative, internationally acclaimed scheme for long term, regional expansion, creates a cluster of cities roughly in a Y pattern that are connected by a planned Maglev High Speed Rail system and a supporting auto/truck freeway network designed to move large numbers of people and goods quickly through a mountainous, bush setting of interdependent but separate communities.
The Y's ultimate size is planned for up to two million residents by 2075 and is well on way of disproving the fallacy that mindless, urban sprawl is inevitably associated with rapid economic expansion of a culture, for example, post war America's headlong transformation into what many planners now posthumously refer to as one giant, amorphous suburb of traffic jams, billboards and chrome plated hot-dog stands.
So relax, put on your vision goggles, take a front row seat, and marvel at this amazing account of how a giant metropolis should really be created. You will neither regret nor forget it and kudos to Kent McCoy for creating what will most certainly become a classic in landscape architectural literature.
see many graphics about Tuggeranong at www.kentmccoy.com
Many people I have talked to ,who have read this book ,consider it the most comprehensive and revealing description of the crucial role a landscape architect plays in developing idealized environments at the mega scale as this project most certainly is. The new city of Tuggeranong is the southernmost satellite city of the world renowned Canberra Y plan which in itself is a highly creative solution for expanding Canberra's population upwards to 2 million people by the end of the 21st century.
The Tuggeranong strategy plan attracted a great deal of interest when it was first circulated on the international scene in the 1960's because it placed strong emphasis on designing people into this city from the getgo. Nineteen distinctly different communities averaging 20-25,000 population each have been imaginatively integrated into a common frame of transportation,schools, open space and commercial development unlike anything yet seen in large scale regional development. A very good read if your one of the many planners out there who are urgently looking for alternatives to the current incoherent sprawl that passes for regional growth.
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6 april 2011
The author, Kent McCoy, imaginatively takes you along on a grand adventure into the complex world of mega scale urban design and why landscape architects play such a vital role in this heady milieu. This well documented work revolves around an idealized new satellite city immediately south of Australia's mountain capitol Canberra. This behemoth, dubbed Tuggeranong, will ultimately provide a home for 375,000 current and future Aussies by 2050 and was planned and built from scratch and you'll be there from the get-go.
Tuggeranong is the largest of the three satellite towns that currently comprise Canberra's Y plan. This innovative, internationally acclaimed scheme for long term, regional expansion, creates a cluster of cities roughly in a Y pattern that are connected by a planned Maglev High Speed Rail system and a supporting auto/truck freeway network designed to move large numbers of people and goods quickly through a mountainous, bush setting of interdependent but separate communities.
The Y's ultimate size is planned for up to two million residents by 2075 and is well on way of disproving the fallacy that mindless, urban sprawl is inevitably associated with rapid economic expansion of a culture, for example, post war America's headlong transformation into what many planners now posthumously refer to as one giant, amorphous suburb of traffic jams, billboards and chrome plated hot-dog stands.
So relax, put on your vision goggles, take a front row seat, and marvel at this amazing account of how a giant metropolis should really be created. You will neither regret nor forget it and kudos to Kent McCoy for creating what will most certainly become a classic in landscape architectural literature.
see many graphics about Tuggeranong at www.kentmccoy.com
