Mount Druit, Australia, Australia
Year latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants Target population 32,000 Town website Town related links Literature - Mark Peel, 'The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty', Cambridge University Press 2003 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
Mount Druitt is a Housing Commission suburb 40 km west of the city centre of Sydney. 8,000 new properties were build to house 32,000 residents. Liberal governments duplicated labour goverments' Green Valley operation, based on the Radburn system, with Mount Druitt. It is now one of the most impoverished areas in Australia, a ghetto. Urban design improvement plans are made. source:
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