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family first went Perth, WA, nearly nine years ago, for only 18 months. But after living in Canada for five years, they decided to return to make Perth their permanent home. Professor
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as giving primacy to the automobile, and responsible for making Perth the worst adapted capital city for public transport. Other academics note that whilst
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TITLE: Immigration - Migrants in the professions - British townplanner and architect settles in Perth - Former
Liverpool town planner and architect Professor Gordon Stephenson has paid an Australian city a town planner's greatest compliment - he has made it his home. Professor Stephenson and his
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provided for local authorities to prepare a town planning scheme, but did not include provisions for the creation of any overarching regional scheme. In 1952, the report of an
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Community opposition to the construction of an aquatic centre in Kings Park, leading to the defeat of two bills in parliament in 1957/58, and the eventual construction of the
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received cabinet approval to develop a comprehensive regional plan, anticipating a significant change in population from the recently approved industrialisation of
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in 1963, which amongst other things, reserved land for a regional highway network and made provision for regional and district open space.
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described the plan as creating "a region which is essentially a network of dormitory suburbs linked by freeways in search of a soul".
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The adoption of building by-laws throughout local government areas regulating housing density through plot ratio controls.
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A 2012 academic review of the Plan stated that
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Sinking of the railway line through the Perth CBD, initially investigated in the 1960s, but only completed by the
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The recommendations of the 1955 Plan foreshadowed, anticipated or directly contributed to the following outcomes:
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and the modernism movement. Stephenson's plan was identified by
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