Woden, Australia, Australia
Year 1962 latitude: -35° 20' longitude: 149° 5' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization None Nationality initiator(s) None Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization The National Capital Development Commission Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links http://www.tomw.net.au/cnbst4.html http://www.nationalcapital.gov.au/history/history_10.htm Literature - Hugh Stretton, Ideas for Australian Cities, third edition, Transit Australia Publishing, Sydney 2001 (1970) p. 54-57, 69-72 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
Woden was the first of Canberra's new satellite town districts to be built according to the Y-plan. It features 13 suburbs arranged around a town centre and merges with Weston Creek. The majority of the suburbs are characterised by detached single family homes. Some also have pockets of medium density units or town houses. The district is intersected by roads linking the suburbs, the main roads typically parklike flanked with mounds of earth, trees and bushes. The new towns around Canberra were planned and built with many of the characteristics of independent towns; with their own commercial, employment and retail centres. No industry. The population distribution in 2003 was 20% in Canberra Central, 17% in Woden-Weston Creek, 27% in Belconnen, 8% in Gungahlin and Hall and 28% in Tuggeranong. source:
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