Canberra Map

When Walter Burley Griffin won the international competition to design Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory, in 1912, he declared: "I have planned an ideal city". The plan -- a geometrically balanced, visually interesting, and dense layout -- was well liked in Australia, despite negative reactions from British planners. The city plan owed much to the Garden City ideas of Ebenezer Howard and Raymond Unwin and to American City Beautiful planning. Griffin's plan was based on high density development, similar to Daniel Burnham's Chicago Plan, but the city was built at a much lower density. In the course of the construction of the city, which was not seriously undertaken until the 1950s, the Griffin plan was changed in many small ways to accommodate changes in Australian culture.

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