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Before we face the problem, we need to recognise the current situation. We need to use this gift of awareness wisely and we must re-establish the scenarios we predict. We need to recognise our creative capacities for the richness they are and seek hope for the children of our future generations.
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TOOWONG HAD ITS BEGINNINGS IN THE 1850s. By 1842 the Moreton Bay Convict settlement had been disbanded and Moreton Bay was open to free settlement.
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In 1850 the area now known as Toowong was surveyed and divided into several large estates owned by families such as the Cribbs, Kelletts, Markwells and Maynes whose names have become familiar to local residents. The first recorded use of the name Toowong was in 1851 when J.C. Burnett marked Toowong Creek on his survey of lots for sale. The name was then used in 1852 as a boundary descriptor in Land Purchase Certificates for these lots. (credit from http://www.toowong.org/)
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The lost of green open space due to the growth of population, however green space is a place that holding everyone together as a community, when the open space is closed to other purpose, it will lost the connection/ interaction between people and place.
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The increase of land used for residential and commercial is destroying the human experiences that linked people and places. The urban planning has left no place for people to appreciate natural surroundings. There is no other places that can pleased us, human beings, and in this case, we starting loosing the whole experiences and landscape narratives.
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Water element We came from the water; our bodies are largely water; and water plays a fundamental role in our psychology. We need constant access to water, all around us; and we can not have it without reverence for water in all its forms. But everywhere in cities water is out of reach. There is no other way to build up an adequate texture of water in cities: we need pools for swimming, ornamental and natural pools, streams of rain water, fountains, falls, natural brooks and streams running through towns, tiny garden pools, and reservoirs we can get to and appreciate. Preserve natural wet water parkland and make paths for people to walk along them and footbridges to cross them. Let the streams form natural barriers in the city, with traffic crossing them only infrequently on bridges. Whenever possible, collect rainwater in open gutters and allow it to flow above ground, along pedestrian paths and in front of houses. In places without natural running water create fountains in the streets. Kffnfe^# 9i`jYXe\# Hl\\ejcXe[# 8ljkiXc`X
Public space Without common land no social system can survive. The common land has two specific social functions. 1. The land makes it possible for people to feel comfortable outside their buildings and their private territory, and therefore allows them to feel connected to the larger social system-though not necessarily to any specific neighbor. 2. Common land acts as a meeting place for people.
Parkland From the research, If children donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play enough with other children during the first five years of life, there is a great chance that they will have some kind of mental illness later in their lives. To provide a space for all ages is important for modern days, a space that will provide a meeting space within urban setting. There are very few spots along the streets of modern towns where people can hang out, comfortably, for hours at a time. An outdoor room is needed for Brisbane City a partly enclosed place, with some roof, columns, without walls, perhaps with a trellis; place it beside an important path and within view of many buildings and landscape. Reference: Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S. & Silverstein, M., 1977. A pattern language : towns, buildings, construction, New York: Oxford University Press.
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Jpek_\j`j Creating the new country. Imagine a city of a unique new typology that meets the needs of its inhabitants while maximizing the quality of work, play and relax. This typology would embrace communities and their citizens as a flexible framework which adapts to environmental and economic changes.
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FUTURE THOUGHTS The future transport system is coming under increasing pressure as more people choose to live and work in Toowong. The visible landscape is believed to affect human beings in many ways, including aesthetic appreciation and health and well-being. The literature review by Velarde and Tveit identified that the main health aspects of exposure to landscapes related to reduced stress, improved attention capacity, facilitating recovery from illness, ameliorating physical well-being in elderly people, and behavioural changes that improve mood and general well-being. These effects have been addressed by means of viewing natural landscapes during a wall, viewing from a window, looking at a picture of a video, or experiencing vegetation around residential or work environments. There have been major advances in our understanding of the relationship between landscapes and human health.
By 2025, Brisbane roads will be extremely congested if no new road, public transport or walking and cycling initiatives are implemented now. Attitudes of concern for the quality of life and the environment are required to motivate people to develop the skills necessary for finding out about the environment and to take the necessary actions for environmental and economic problem-solving. Toowong statutory plans strike a balance between providing necessary certainty for the development industry and the community, while being adequately flexible to allow buildings and uses over time as the needs of the city change.
Ulrich in his essay also has pointed out that views of nature, compared to most urban scenes lacking natural elements such as trees, appear to have more positive influences on emotional and physiological states. The benefits of visual encounters with vegetation can be linked directly to health, and in turn related to economic benefits of visual quality. A sense of place is a rich and dynamic dialogue between ourselves and the economic, social, cultural and ecological complexities of life (Beatley and Manning, 1997); places are always political and contested (Hayden, 1995; Stocker and Netherwood, 2006). Almost every place is a cultural landscape with many facets, layers and human expressions (Seddon, 1997) that reflect and maintain power relations (Hayden, 1995). Indigenous commentators like Marcia Langton (1998) have stated that all of Australia is a cultural landscape and that every part of the country has been touched, walked over, hunted on, and dreamt by its traditional owners and occupants for millennia. Consequently, wilderness is a misleading and inappropriate descriptor in Australia. Reference: Beatley, T. & Manning, K. (1997). The ecology of place: Planning for environment, economy, and community. Washington: Island Press. Hayden, D. (1995). The power of place: Urban landscapes as public history. Cambridge: MIT Press. Netherwood, K., Buchanan, J., Stocker, L. and Palmer, D. (2006). Values education for relational sustainability: A case study of Lance Holt School and friends. In Wooltorton, S. and Marinova, D. (Eds). Sharing wisdom for our future. Environmental education in action: Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (pp. 250â&#x20AC;&#x201C;260). Sydney: AAEE. Seddon, G. (1997). The genius loci and the Australian landscape. In Landprints: Reflections on place and landscape (pp. 113â&#x20AC;&#x201C;118). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Langton, M. (1998). Burning questions, emerging environmental issues for indigenous peoples in Northern
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As a reactive healing force, this city could renew weak urban zones in decline by filling voids and dead space with functioning, thriving neighborhoods. Most importantly, this new typology would have the capacity to maximize green space and solve infrastructural issues while creating an efficient, accessible circulation system for public transit. FIRE PARK realizes this urban typology in the context of Toowong, a prime location for sustainable innovation at a large scale. Toowong faces problems incurred by current population density, loss of green public space, and decreasing viable land. Fire Park challenges these issues by changing Toowongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s building typology and open up more open space for the community. The proposal burns a part of the residential and commercial area to open up the space for public. By literally expressing distinct functions for its citizens, FIRE PARK relates strongly to the human scale while simultaneously decreasing density and increasing green space at the urban scale. FIRE PARK addresses four crucial aspects of sustainability. In the realm of social sustainability, the anonymous feeling of immense cities is challenged by interconnecting typically isolated diverse zones. In the economical sense, increase green space invigorates the morale of Toowongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dense society.