But it became the least sustainable. Post WW2, as Canberra rapidly expanded, the politicians, egged on by bureaucrats, supplanted the compact layout with the ‘Y-plan’ by Lord Holford, of the UK ‘New Towns’ movement. Its inanity promoted low density suburbia full of curved roads and roundabouts, creating the nation’s highest demand for cars to reach individual, poor climate-designed houses.
The project, developed by David Chipperfield Architects, Assemble, and landscape architect Jane Irwin, will connect usually separate functions, working as one ecosystem.