Yallourn, Australia, Australia
Year 1920 latitude: -38° 9' longitude: 146° 22' Period 1920-1952 Initiator(s) Planning organization State Electricity Commission Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) A.R. La Gerche Design organization Inhabitants (1980) Target population Town website Town related links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yallourn Literature - Meredith Fletcher, 'Digging People Up for Coal: A History of Yallourn', Melbourne University Press 2002 type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Yallourn was established in the 1920s by the State Electricity Commission to house its employees. It was to be a model garden town. The development of locomotives stimulated the production on Yallourn's mine site. Between 1947 and 1952 several thousand more homes were built to attract employees. The town underwent rapid growth. When in 1969 the SEC announced that it was phasing out the town, in order to obtain the coal deposits beneath Yallorn, the population started relocating to surrounding cities. source: Marie Bruun Yde
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