Visions for Adelaide: The Persistence Of Planning Ideas

Abstract

In the early twentieth century, South Australia, as with most of the western world, embraced the then new concept of comprehensive town planning with enthusiasm. The idea of co-ordinating the layout and design of cities with the location of, and expenditure on, public works and the regulation of development seemed a logical answer to the complex problems of increasing urbanization. South Australia's traditions of organized public towns commenced by Light and carried on by successive Surveyors Generalparticularly G. W. Goyder-and of a strongly interventionist State administration, ensured that the concept fell on fruitful ground.