Sunday, 8 April 2012

How people live in cities

One of the things we're looking forward to seeing is how people live in their city.

Here in the leafy eastern suburbs of Adelaide we have plenty of room. Adelaide is a city of  1.2 million people spread over the same area as Tokyo with its 30 million. We have very little high rise and spacious blocks of land. Infill building is happening in our area and blocks are reducing in size to average 500 square metres. Our living space and outdoor environment is influenced by many things.

In our garden, over the last 5 years, we have reduced concrete and lawn and introduced some structure. This has been influenced by Japanese gardens we've seen in books and the Himeji garden in the Adelaide City South Parklands. We are looking forward to seeing and feeling what gardens, which may be many hundreds of years old, look like in the temples and parks in the Japanese cultural setting.

Front and back yard features in our Unit:


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