47 Yvonne Rydin’s paper ‘Environmental Dimensions of Residential Development and
the Implications of Local Planning Practice’ (1992) looks further into appropriate build-
ing materials, sequested energy, and avoidance of toxic materials. Refer also to Susan
Owen’s admirable Energy Planning and Urban Form, 1986.
48 The most likely future move in the direction of ‘urban greenfields village’
development will probably come from the private sector. The principle problem,
unless the developer owns the whole of the surrounding greenfields estate, being
one of keeping conventional suburbanization and edge-city broad-acre urbanization
at bay.
49 With some local government administrations the GIS mapping of infill capacity (Land
Capacity Analysis) is used to do the realtors’ land supply job without attempting to
address the determination and provisioning of site needs in anything like a socially
focused way.
50 An effective provisioning for raw land subdivisions (also of considerable utility for
infill situations) is the Victorian Code for Residential Development (VicCode 1992). See
alsoResidential Streetsby Walter Kulash (2001) for recent US contexts.
51 TNDs – see Suburban Nation, Duany, Plater-Zyberk, Speck 2000.
52 There can arise a down-side to work-at-home arrangements; sometimes missed sup-
ervisor feedback, certainly a lack of personal inter-reaction between workers. Often
there are complaints about couriertraffic, and of course the curse of malfunctioning
technologies.
53 Tibbalds set down a design management listing which included the following items:
consider places before buildings; learn from the past and respect your context; encour-
age the mixing of uses; design on a human scale; encourage freedom to walk about;
cater for and consult with all sections of the community; build legible environments;
build to last and adapt; avoid change on too great a scale; promote intricacy, joy and
delight.
54 A visit to Olwyn Green was disappointing. The plots are well sited and the buildings
craftily oriented; but there is an evident lack of upkeep-pride. This project was initi-
ated as public housing.
55 An Australian publication of interest is the Victorian Ministry for Planning and Envi-
ronment 1989, Planning Guide for Urban Open Space.
56 Excepting, to the way of thinking for many, ex-urban sprawl!
57 What they must avoid in the pursuit of compaction is policy simplicity of the formu-
laic kind once applied in my then home jurisdiction. There in the 1980s it was decreed
that provided a 12 m ¥12 m square could be fitted into any suburban backyard or front
yard (and the total area of the new plot exceeded 250 m^2 ) there was an ‘as of right’ infill
approval regardless of any aesthetic or good-neighbour consideration!
58 Recent study projects from Melbourne (Albert Park, East Malvern, Armadale)
are indicative of the potential for Transport Oriented Development in the service
of suburban densification. Commendable and worthy as the Transport Oriented
Development ideal is relative to the nodal entities from which they radiate,
they leave considerable expanses, particularly in the outer suburban reaches,
unbenefited.
59 Privacy is entirely a matter of building and landscape design. In well-considered
English suburbia the niche gardens and patios incorporated within 250 m^2 sized plots
allow their occupants secluded sunbathing in the altogether, with a privacy impossi-
ble to achieve in New World frontyard-backyard-sideyard suburbs.
60 This supposition being blown away of course when inner-city lifestylers disappear to
their remote weekender cottages, or power away from it all in cabin cruisers!294 Notes to pp. 227–46