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| | Canberra at the Crossroads |
 | | Unfortunately, when the American consultants convinced Canberra's planners to incorporate their freeway plan into the Garden City vision they had derived from Howard's ideas, they introduced a fundamental and fateful change in Howard's original model, which had placed heavy emphasis on walking, cycling and public transport as means of travel. |
 | | Given that Canberra's population is likely to grow much less rapidly than predicted in the past, as the ACT government points out in "Canberra: A Capital Future", the population target for Gungahlin should be revised downwards to the original figure of 85,000, but the employment target should remain at the higher figure of 23,000. |
 | | Canberra has a much greater share of employment and other activity in centres (Civic, Woden, Tuggeranong, Belconnen) than is the case in Melbourne and Sydney (and Ottawa), where there are many freestanding shopping malls, business parks and other forms of unplanned development. |
| www.netspeed.com.au /cr/bicycle/features/cac.htm (13854 words) |
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