Albury-Wodonga, Australia, Australia
Year 1973 latitude: ° 0' longitude: ° 0' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants Target population Town website Town related links http://www.albury-wodonga.com/docs/history.htm Literature - Bruce Pennay, 'Making a city in the country: A history of the Albury-Wodonga National Growth Centre Project 1973-2003', UNSW Press, Sydney 2005 type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
Albury-Wodonga is a kind of twin town that has spread across the border between New South Wales and Victoria along the Murray River. It is located 600 km from Sydney and 300 km from Melbourne. Albury-Wodonga was selected as the primary focus of the Whitlam Government's new cities program 1972-75 that was to encourage decentralisation, urban and politically. Big plans were made to turn Albury-Wodonga into a major inland city. Some industries were enticed to move there, and the population accelerated, but after government change the plans quickly faded away. Still the city is the only from the new cities program yet existing (Macarthur becoming part of an urban corridor for Sydney, rather than a decentralised new city). source:
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