Canberra’s residential districts were developed with the intention of being semi-self-contained satellite towns with an intended population of about 80,000 people. The districts contain Town Centres which serve as commercial, transport and employment nodes. The districts are separated by nature reserves, and in most cases were designed according to a policy of ridges and valleys where the urban areas were located in valleys, separated by ridges, containing nature parks. There are seven districts in Canberra, each is divided into between eight and 25 suburbs, but on average about 18. (Canberra’s Territory Plan also contains districts located outside of the urban areas for the purposes of land administration. These are not covered in this article).
In chronological order of development, the Districts are:
- Canberra Central (often referred to as North Canberra and South Canberra), settled from the 1920s to 60s (25 suburbs)
- Woden Valley, settled in 1963 (12 suburbs)
- Belconnen, first settled in 1967 (25 suburbs)
- Weston Creek, settled in 1969 (8 suburbs)
- Tuggeranong, settled in 1974 (18 suburbs)
- Gungahlin, settled in the early 1990s (18 suburbs)
- Molonglo Valley, development to begin in 2010, 13 suburbs planned.
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