Stalking Black Swans In Canberra: The City Of Plans

Canberra, Australia, as we know it today, was designed by American Walter Burley Griffin between 1913 – 1920. Influenced heavily by the City Beautiful and Garden Cityi movements, Canberra is a modern city in every sense of the term; it’s an ode to top-down, Soviet-style central planning.ii While the 3′-diameter copper disk you see above represents the original City Plan, […]