Newman, Australia, Australia
Year 1972 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 Literature - John McIlwraith, The Mt Newman Story, Iron Ore BHP, Western Australia 1988 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
Newman, located 1120 km norteast of perth, is with 5,500 inhabitants the largest town in the Pilabare region. Newman was build by Mt Newman Mining Company, now BHP Iron Ore, to house its employees involved in the mining of iron ore. BHP Iron ore sends ore from the mine to its port facilities in Port Hedland via a 426 km railroad. It is a modern town laid out with a core with shopping and a few restaurents and hotels, surrounded by residential areas of leafy suburban style homes. As the town was founded and built by a steel company, most of the buildings use a steel frame construction. Many of the homes consist of two prefab halves inserted together. source:
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