{"id":1022,"date":"2011-07-11T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T05:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T02:50:03","slug":"featured-title-canberra-city-in-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/featured-title-canberra-city-in-the-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra &#8211; the making of a city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Canberra: City in the Landscape<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ken Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/canberra.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1023\" src=\"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/canberra-242x300.png\" alt=\"Canberra\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/canberra-242x300.png 242w, https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/canberra-350x434.png 350w, https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/canberra.png 505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is 100 years since Walter Burley Griffin won the 1911 international design competition to create a city in the landscape for Australia\u2019s national city.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when Burley Griffin\u2019s vision is under siege in some quarters, highly regarded author, academic and landscape planning\u00a0consultant,\u00a0<b>Professor\u00a0Ken Taylor<\/b>,\u00a0brings\u00a0his sharp eye and considerable understanding to the unique features of Canberra\u2019s landscape design.<\/p>\n<p>His book is also an account of the far-sighted people who brought the vision to life. In 1912 Walter Burley Griffin wrote of his plan for\u00a0 \u2018a city like no other\u2019. Yet many Australians would be unaware that it was Prime Minister Menzies who, many years later, played a part in ensuring Australia had a\u00a0fitting capital.<\/p>\n<p><b>Canberra: City in the Landscape\u00a0<\/b>helps us understand this grand design and how it came about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canberra: City in the Landscape Ken Taylor It is 100 years since Walter Burley Griffin won the 1911 international design competition to create a city in the landscape for Australia\u2019s national city. 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