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Tag Archives: new suburbs

Bad design spreads like a disease

January 18, 2018A DICKSON RESIDENT, biodiversity, CANBERRA, climate change, green infrastructure, opinions, SUSTAINABLE SETTLEMENTS, urban development, URBANITYACT Planning Directorate, climate change, Gungahlin, new suburbs, planningPaul Costigan

My post last week on the lack of good design and planning that is evident in the more recent parts of Gungahlin definitely caught a lot of people’s attention.

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