Arsenal Town [cartographic material] : first preliminary plan / signed J.C. Morell, town planner, 11/12/18 ; this plan has been prepared for discussion by the Arsenal Town Committee
- Bib ID:
- 3741664
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Morell, J. C. (James Charles), 1868-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale differs (E 149°08'/S 35°18')
- Description:
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- [1918]
- 2 maps on 2 sheets : ms. ; 53.9 x 65.8 cm. on sheet 59.2 x 83.7 cm.
- Full contents:
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- [Plan no. 1]. Scale 1:3,720, Scale of this reproduction about 1 inch = 310 feet
- Plan no. 2. Scale of this reproduction 1:7,160.
- Biography/History:
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James Charles Morell (1868-?) was an architect in the Public Works Department in Melbourne from 1889. His name appears on drawings of minor government buildings until the financial crash of the 1890s when building works ceased. Morell remained employed at the PWD during this period. In 1913 he had become interested in the new discipline of town planning and was sent overseas, where he trained under Raymond Urwin, the father of town planning. Morell wrote a report on developments in slum clearance, civic beautification, garden suburbs and cities on the American model as had been applied in Los Angeles County. He saw the American approach to town development as more relevant to Australia rather than the English model as exemplified at Ardoch. As the Victorian Town Planner, Morell worked with Walter Burley Griffin on the Australian Government's Arsenal Committee which met 11 times from Aug. 29 - Dec. 11, 1918. These plans accompanied the Interim Report of the Arsenal Comittee issued Dec. 11, 1918 but susequently no further action was taken to build the Arsenal or the township. Professionally, Morell promoted such currently standard aspects of planning as internal parks and use zoning. His views were adopted by the Melbourne Town Planning Commission and in the planning of the new town of Yallourn (now demolished). After the Great War, he was responsible for the layout planning for the Commonwealth War Service Homes Commission.
- Notes:
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- Photostat reproduction of a detailed landscape design presented on two plans prepared by James Morell, Australian architect and town planner, for a satellite industrial town, corresponding to modern day Tuggeranong, to the south of the original site for Canberra. Plan no. 1 includes both town and munitions factory area giving an outline of the street system and its relationship to the Arsenal factories as well as open space features such as parks, reserves and public gardens. Note that the proposed location of the factory is on that part of the Murrumbidgee River corresponding to Pine Island Reserve behind and partly encompassing the suburb of Greenway. Thus the munitions factory would have been constructed at Turggernong's town centre. Less detail is given of the town on Plan 1 other than the location of churches. The southern part of the town is situated a mile or so north of the factory as shown in Plan no. 2. Oriented with north on the right side of the plan, the southern section of the town is situated in the bend of Tuggeranong Creek as it flows into the Murrumbidgee River and separated from the munitions factory by a park belt with one main road entrance into the factory area.
- Plan No. 2 gives a closer view of Arsenal Town excluding the factory area to the south. The town centre where the main roads converge corresponds to the intersection of Turggeranong Drive and Athlon Drive and just south of this centre a proposed railway line begins heading southwards past Mt. Tuggeranong in the suburb of Oxley then turning northwest into the suburb of Monash. The western end of town stretches into the suburb of Kambah while the eastern ends lies in the midst of the suburb of Waniassa. The northern section of the town begins on the northern side of Tuggeranong Creek. The Civic Centre is clearly marked and shown as a triangular convergence of roads, corresponding to the intersection of Tuggeranong Drive and Taverner Drive. On the other side of the railway line and and its station yard, a northeastern section of the town is only partly shown. Town features include playgrounds, sports oval, bowling greens, parks and reserves, tennis courts and a proposed store depot. The legend includes a community hall with offices, a technical school, primary, secondary and grammar schools, 3 churches & 3 Sunday schools, hotel, club, two shops and two banks, offices and professional chambers, 9 hostels for single men, 8 hostels for single women, a hostel for male clerical staff, garage, hall, court house, post office, other public buildings including a railway station.
- Plan no. 1 originally drawn to scale [1:2,400] 200 feet to 1 inch.
- Plan no. 2 originally drawn to scale [1:4,800] 400 feet to 1 inch
- "The Southern part has been generally approved and the Northern part not finally approved. It is one of the drawings referred to in the report of the Committee dated 11.12.18"--Plan no. 1.
- Plan no. 1 has north oriented to the right.
- At bottom right of sheet for Plan no. 1: Dgn. 49, Sh. 1.
- At bottom right of sheet for Plan no. 2: Dgn. 49, Sh. 2.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-229842871
- Canberra & District Historical Society: PO Box 924, Civic Square ACT 2608.
- Reproduction:
- Electronic reproduction. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2006. 1 digital map Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- Time Coverage:
- 1918
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- Also Titled:
- Morell Arsenal Town
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