"CANBERRA: The Planned Capital of Australia
CANBERRA: The Planned Capital of Australia
The surveyor will bear in mind that the federal Capital should be a beautiful city, occupying a commanding position with extensive views, and embracing distinctive features, which will lend themselves to the evolution of a design worthy of the object, not only for the present but for all time...
-Directions to surveyor RC Scrivener, 1909
How do you go from this...
Griffin's design of the city from Mt Ainslie, with the land axis crossing the lake and in a line with Mt Bimberi. The land axis and the water axis gave the central area a coherent structure missing from the designs of the other prize-winners.
To this?
- Canberra Today -
Find out below!
(This is a hot link to the ACT tourist board linking information about the history and current functions of the National Capital. - Note - there is no link to return here, so unless your browser keeps a log, you will have to type the entire URL to return to this page.) The Canberra Valley has been transformed from rolling sheep pastures to a great National Capital city in one person's lifetime - FIND OUT HOW!
This page has been created by Ian Furar. Click here for works cited.