Most of these wishes
were unattainable, not least for financial reasons, until the Town and Country Planning Act of 19
was passed, which gave
the necessary powers and the appointment of the first Town and Country Planning Commissioner, Ronald Alison McInnis. The following
two parts show that between the First World War and the interwar period
there was no lack of discussion about design, but different design goals were promoted by individual voices that did not join forces and interest in design declined.
Indeed, we could be forgiven for thinking that urban planning is only important to residents of capital cities, and perhaps
to residents of some major regional cities, but not to residents of small towns in Australia. In his 2002 study of the richness and diversity of Australian design history, Freestone claimed that some
,
subjects had been "abandoned", including "landscape" and "planned marginalized places".
Based on the analysis and activism in Aalborg, Denmark, Flyvbjerg concluded that in order to make planning more effective, the local government must engage more actively
with interested actors and facilitate their participation in the planning committee, with the aim of "ensuring that discussions and decisions are as democratic as possible and have the widest possible support
". During the Second World War, a decisive catalyst was the Devonport Chamber of Commerce, founded in 19
in
, which wanted to work with local and national authorities to begin planning. A study of the population of Australia's
,
major centers between 1911 and 2011 shows that in 1911 nine regional cities had a population of between
,000 and 6,000: Albany,
0. "reduced some of the research that has moved from major state capitals to
remote urban centers such as Darwin, regional cities such as Albury-Wodonga and Launceston, and rural towns and
remote locations such as Woomera. .
In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past due to unplanned development, and the desire to promote population and economic growth,
urban planning enthusiasts have tried at various times to achieve better transport infrastructure, open spaces and
recreational areas, social improvements, urban plans.
