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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41756

Type

conference item

Titre

Living with heritage: Canberra, city in the landscape. Can it remain a city not like any other?

Langues

English

Auteurs

Taylor, Ken

Date

2005

Pages

10 p.

Titre de conférence

15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes’

Lieu de conférence

Xi'an, China

Date de conférence

17 – 21 oct 2005

Mots-clés

setting / towns / urban development / town planning / town and country planning / conservation of historic sites / landscapes

Pays mentionnés

Australia

Monuments et sites

Canberra, Australia

Résumé en anglais

Canberra, Australia’s national capital, had its genesis in ideals of the Australian landscape. Site choice in 1909, the Griffin winning design in the 1911 international competition, and subsequent development have focussed on the concept of the city in the landscape. Symbolically fundamental to the city’s image is its overall landscape setting and how the surrounding landscape flows into the city to create a green skeleton which articulates the city’s form. It is the city’s landscape setting from the surrounding hills through the open space system of the city right down to individual street-tree plantings that form a tangible physical framework. But it is a framework that has distinctive intangible values where culture and nature meet. As the city grows and demographics change how can the setting of the city in landscape image and its associated symbolic values be maintained whilst accommodating urban consolidation and increasing densities in contrast to the traditional suburban mode. Is it possible to maintain the leafy city character and its social values? The city continues to fulfill a national role and local community role. But tensions are apparent as the city examines ways in which sustainable growth can be achieved and have the potential to question the very landscape basis of the city where culture and nature meet. The paper will look at the values of the setting of this unique city, critically review their formation, and discuss options for the future

Document joint

3-47.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)