7 Not to be overlooked was a transfer of the bungalow to California from the place
of origin for both the word itself and the design concept, namely the northern hill
stations of India.
8 Along with a number of positives, particularly keeping incompatible uses separated.
9 Reasoning along these lines is included within the Regional Growth Management sub-
passage in the previous chapter.
10 In Australia ‘Over 77 percent of all homes are separate dwellings’ (Anthony King in
Silverstone 1997); and in New Zealand close to 80 per cent of all homes are single-
storey detached bungalows.
11 Individuality and Inventiveness, my phrasing, is tongue-in-cheek mythology. The 1989
study of values (Gold and Webster 1990: xvii) summarizes thus: ‘New Zealanders have
a wait-and-see attitude to change and new ideas...most adopt an “it depends”
attitude...[and there is only] moderate attraction to changes and the demands of
fundamental reform.’
12 Within the same article Bamford denotes those who would promote urban consolida-
tion as ‘densifiers’!
13 It is also an irony that although to Bamford suburbs may have ‘redressed some of the
disadvantages of class’ for incoming settlers, they present an almost impermeable
barrier for Australia’s indigenous first peoples.
14 At under a dollar per litre for gasoline it is possible to reason that the gasoline cost of
automobile use is a relatively minor matter. At around $2 per litre car usage by, for
instance, students would lessen, and at around $3 per litre serious car pooling would
start to occur, and at around $5 per litre the suburbs would show marked signs of con-
strained mobility. Of course, with gasoline priced at that level there would be fewer
jobs and a greater number of discontentedly unemployed – all grist to the mill for
hydrogen-powered vehicle development.
15 Consult Blakely and Snyder, Fortress America, 1997. A gated neo-Georgian retirement
home was chosen by former British PM, Margaret Thatcher. This led opposition MP
Simon Hughes to define her choice as ‘symbolic of the two nations constructed by
[Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives]’.
16 ‘Buildings are where Americans spend about 90 percent of their time. They use...
two-thirds of [US] energy.’ Hawken, Lovins, Lovins, Natural Capitalism,1999.
17 Placemaking: The Art of Building Communities(Schneekloth and Shibley 1995) is dedi-
cated to the process of neighbourhood-building. In their Introduction they observe that
‘the allocation of [placemaking] work [by architects, planners, builders, engineers and
landscapists] is fundamentally disabling to others...which ultimately disempowers
others’!
18 Consult The Transportation Land-Use Connectioncompiled by Terry Moore and Paul
Thorsnes (1994).
19 The carefully designed Swedish (Gothenburg) layout for Skintebo is alliterated into
Skiljebo, the home of divorce! Re-expressed from Bjorn Klarquist’s ‘The Neighbourhood
Unit: A Social Mould?’ (1991).
20 Australian Planning Institute, 2001. Bruce Wright, Expectations of a Better World.
21 Supplementary detail-design recommendations are listed in box 5.3, ‘Suburban design-
detail code’.
22 Thus even where useful recommendations for poorer nations might be anticipated (as
with chapter 7 of Agenda 21, ‘Promoting Sustainable Human Settlement Development’)
the central issue of ‘land for housing’ is not addressed at all.
23 The Appendix also contains James Lunday’s listing of the Key Urban Principles
emanating from Agenda 21.
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