Research on the establishment and concept of Park Belts with colonial development in Australia and New Zealand

Abstract

(1) Principle of greenbelt comprises two types, parkbelt and ruralbelt. Cities in New Zealand produced the prototype of those two ideas.(2) Greenbelts in Adelaid and New Zealand separate the urban and the rural by belts of parks which function as parks. The aim of the greenbelts was to control population spread into vast waste land which surround the colonies and eventually to communities.(3) Introduction of park concepts into greenbelt was derectly influenced by Loudon's ideas. It was also related to the increasing social demand for park construction of the era.(4) It was popular during the era to create English picturesque landscape in parkbelts. At prsent, however, the major concern is shifttion to environmental conservation.(5) Lucca, Italy is thought to have had an effect, working as model, on development of parkbelt images.(6) In place of townbelt, Christchurch produced ruralbelt concept which was to become the basis of Garden City idea of Howard. It leads to suggest that permanency of green-belt is realated to a form of land ownership, clear land use regulations and must be reaserved.