Edmondson Park is a suburb under Liverpool and Campbelltown local governments. Edmondson Park is located in south west Sydney, 40 km from Sydney Central Business District (CBD) and 6 km from Liverpool City Central. Land use in Edmondson Park is predominantly rural-residential area. The area is previously a community of small farms before rezoning plan for the Edmondson Park release area. The suburb is featured by Tree Valley Golf Course and Ingleburn Military Heritage Precinct. (Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS), 2014) Urban Extension - Major Land Release Plan Edmondson Park (South) land is initially used for Ingleburn army land, which subsequently purchased by NSW Government. As stated in Australia Project Book (ACNU, 2006), the plan is projected to deliver 7,500 dwellings. The proposed design generally intended to implement a district town centre, with transport interchange and public services for community. The area is designated to provide alternative to medium and low density development in city fringe Sydney. Surrounding area is still vacant and under construction. …show more content…
The vision for Edmondson Park is the creation of place that integrate residential uses, commercial and employment. Instead of aggregation of subdivided the lots, the development emphasis is on the place as a whole. The plans ensure to create vibrant communities by enhancing the open space and valuing natural features of the site. The development includes six villages and retention of Cumberland woodland in conservation areas. The higher densities development are concentrated around open spaces, villages and town centre. In order to maximise the opportunity for community to have a range of housing options with predominantly smaller lots. The plan delivers rural residential, apartment buildings, semi-detached and attached
Brimbank Park (coordinates 37.7340° S, 144.8370° E) is located in the Maribyrnong Valley (hollowed by the Maribyrnong River), near the Melbourne suburb Keilor. It is intersected by the Maribynong River and the M80 highway, which reveals the adaptive nature of the natural environment in a growing urban area. (Parks Victoria, 2013)
Community elected home owners association officials are constantly involved in complex decisions regarding the state, safety, and welfare of the property of our small community and solving community problems. Effective ways to solve problems faced by Deer Crossing Homeowners’ is to conduct a needs assessment of the community in an effort to provide feedback for the community elected officials.
Malouf is very skilled in creating a sense of place in 12 Edmondstone Street. This essay examines the different techniques he uses in describing 12 Edmondstone Street and Tuscany.
The Englewood community is one of Chicago’s 77 official communities. The community is an urban setting comprised of 30,654 residents. Ninety-eight percent (98.8%) are African American. Of the population, 5,740 are youth 10 to 19 years of age, 18.7% of the population and approximately 60% of the households are headed by single women (U.S. Census, 2010). In 2011, median household income was $24,049 compared to the City of Chicago median household of $43,628. The 2010 U.S. Census did not report household income. Englewood ranks as one of the highest poverty communities in Chicago with a poverty rate exceeding 39% (Atlas of Illinois Poverty, 2003).
Riverbank, a large city, has a district with a huge problem. Grant’s Valley, although booming with business, is a quaint and historic part of Riverbank that the residents want to keep that way. The business aspect of Grant’s Valley has an ever growing need for more space for tourists to park and there is just too much traffic for the area to withstand. Riverbank’s historically quaint Grant’s Valley would benefit from the destruction of the unused junior-high on 35th and Princeton and the new construction of a one hundred space parking lot and a new park. This would attract more people and lessen the unattractive curb appeal of the parking lot in the residential area of Grant’s Valley that the residents want
Kennedy A. (2014) Castle Vale Housing Action Trust: Lessons in Regenerating Communities Lecture, University of Birmingham.
Gage Park is number sixty-three of seventy-seven neighborhoods that make up the city of Chicago. According to the Chicago Park District (2014), the Gage Park area received its name in honor of Commissioner George Gage who was a respected prominent business man and attorney in the late 1870’s. Located on the southwest side of Chicago; Gage Park is a community that is known for its cultural history and diversity over the years. Many different races have lived in this community from the time it was developed, and this trend continues to evolve. As mentioned in the Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005), the Germans first settled in Gage Park in mid-1800s. Later in the 1920’s, the area became populated with the Polish population who migrated for employment.
Because of the amount of overdeveloped areas that are now vacant, the desire to renovate old vacant properties and land plots has all but disappeared. What if there was a beneficial solution to unused land plots in need of rehab and redesign? What if, instead of paving over every leftover inch of grass and dirt in urban areas to make room for more parking for our daily commuting polluters, we instead reinvent that land for a purpose that is both beneficial to our
Upton’s premise is a mix-use development providing a complete cross section of dwelling types supported by economic opportunity and social infrastructure. The site was assembled through English partnerships, which were granted outline planning permission for Upton in 1997 (Community and Local Government 2007). The scheme aims to deliver 1,382 homes by its completion in 2013 (Clark 2010).
As a booming industrial metropolis in the 19th century, Montreal faced lots of problems such as pollution, overpopulation, unhealthy living conditions and harsh working environment. Under such circumstances, Mont Royal Park was needed by people, especially working classes as a multifunction public open space by remitting their intensive working stress and reliving them from highly urbanized environment. With the progress of industrialization, urbanization began in the city. The creation of open green areas is one essential element in urbanization development. New York Central Park, as a successful precedent of a public city park in a metropolis, supported the proposal of creating a park that was made by Sir James Alexander in 1840. Mount Royal is chosen for its natural beauty and convenience of its location. Frederic Law Olmsted was named to be the main designer of Mount Royal Park. He saw the suffering brought from industrialization and use that as foundation of his plans for the park and this resulted a far different park from other parks built before industrialization.
Reacting to the choking of cities abroad by industrialisation, a 130 hectare area was reserved as a park in 1859, envisioned as a “Central park” for Brisbane and “the lungs of the city”.
In this article, the author writes about the Urban Renewal Plan and what it did to a community in Oakland, California. The West Oakland community was found in 1852 and had a diverse population living there. That article says that upper-class people would be living next door to working class people. After the World Wars that changed because lower income families started moving to the area looking for jobs. The jobs they had were created because of the war. When the war ended these people lost their jobs. At the same time, the Urban Renewal Plan was put into place. This plan set out to remove slums in urban places. This plan would relocated families, demolish houses and create low-income housing. When a family was relocated they received little
The Pruitt-Igoe public housing development in St. Louis was meant to be a solution to the overcrowded and crumbling tenements that many residents endure. It was designed to offer a better living environment with modern conveniences and safety. The reality turned out differently. Problems started to arise, leading to a rapid decline characterized by vandalism, neglect, rising crime rates, and deteriorating conditions. The project became a symbol of the failures of federally funded, high-rise housing initiatives, highlighting the challenges and shortcomings of public housing.
A new phenomenon happening in our city is the rebirth of many of our older and rundown areas. One of the best examples of this is the "Soulard" area of town, which now has an established nightlife as well as exquisite historical antique homes. Lafayette Square has also enjoyed the same type of success as Soulard. It is still in the middle of a high crime area, but is populated by upper-class people with beautiful homes with elaborate wrought iron fences and intricate security systems. This trend of fixing up old flats is spreading out from the areas of Soulard and Lafayette Square to neighboring communities at a rapid pace. The Compton Heights area is coming back with rebuilt old Victorian styled houses and private gated streets that contrast the French styled flats of Soulard. The Shaw and Tower Grove area are also following the lead of revitalization similar to these charming old neighborhoods.
Urban Planning is about places for people. It is about their creation, their function, their maintenance and their improvement .Cities and towns are the basic building blocks of modern society, operating as centers of commerce and trade, government and politics, and knowledge and culture. Well- planned, efficient cities provide healthy and attractive environment for people to live, work and play.