History of Australian Planning

Since the America has been central to world sweeping process in the exercise of profound economic military, ideological, diplomatic, bureaucratic and cultural power, Australia has experienced some influenced somewhere in its urban planning. Before planning in Australia developed around 1900 as a reform movement concerned with condition in Australian cities, Government Macquarie and Francis Greenway, the colonial architect setup the centre structure of constructed city during 1810-1821. Since then to until 1890’s there were none any important planning was experienced by Australia.

During 1890’s, planning in Australia had started to flourish back again. At the turn of twentieth century, many progressive urban Australian looked abroad for the inspiration required to transform what they saw as uninteresting colonial cities despoiled by utilitarianism devoid of word-class public spaces and landmarks and lacking civic pride. After the few searches for artistically planned urban structure, all over the Europe and its mother country Britain, they could not find what they were looking for and they turned to the United States, then in throes of the city beautiful movement. There a new and ambitious civic language partly deconstructed and reassembled from European precedents of grand public buildings, civic centres, park systems, height controls, a gateway features, and artistic street was being codified in impressive new master plans.

The idea of beautiful movements helped to set the scene for the 1911 to 1912 competition to design a new federal capital city. During that period Royal commission for improvements of Sydney and its suburbs were also acting to improve the physical and public infrastructure and also for the beautification of Sydney city. During 1910s Australian planning also experienced by British garden city movement to surround communities by greenbelts. Since then to modern era 1980s, many changes were done in terms of rules regulation and development. After entering to the modern era Australian planning started to make planning side by side with globalization, sustainability and climate change to keep the urban planning viable.