As cities grow and the housing crisis deepens, looking to the past can remind us of design lessons worth repeating.
As long as there have been cities, people have been reimagining how we might live in them. Co-ops with communal kitchens, apartments with shared gardens and whole suburbs engineered to foster social interaction have been established.
A century ago, the late great landscape designer Edna Walling, only in her 20s, created a village on what was then farmland in Mooroolbark in Melbourne. She imagined a community of like-minded people living in simple cottages nestled into a leafy, undulating landscape. There would be thickets of birches and groups of spiraeas. Everything would feel harmonious and natural. She called it Bickleigh Vale.
They also band together for working bees to maintain the laneways and quarterly meetings to discuss various other aspects of Bickleigh Vale. This village is not for the faint-hearted.
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