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Before we face the problem, we need to recognise the current situation. We need to use this gi! of awareness wisely and we must re-establish the scenarios we predict. We need to recognise our creative capacities for the rich-ness they are and seek hope for the children of our future generations.

1.Wind (below 50km/h): negatively in"uences the speed at which a #re spreadsdirection in which a #re travels and the size of the #re frontintensity of a #re – wind provides more oxygenlikelihood of spotting – (embers) create ‘spot #res’ to ignite.

2. Slope/ Topography : Sharples (2007) states that topography can induce measurable changes in wind direction and behaviour.

$e lost of green open space due to the growth of popu-lation, however green space is a place that holding eve-ryone together as a community, when the open space is closed to other purpose, it will lost the connection/interaction between people and place.

$e increase of land used for residential and commer-cial is destroying the human experiences that linked people and places. $e urban planning has le! no place for people to appreciate natural surroundings. $ere is no other places that can pleased us, human beings, and in this case, we starting loosing the whole experiences and landscape narratives.

TOOWONG HAD ITS BEGINNINGS IN THE 1850s. By 1842 the Moreton Bay Convict settlement had been disbanded and Moreton Bay was open to free settle-ment.

In 1850 the area now known as Toowong was surveyed and divided into several large estates owned by fami-lies such as the Cribbs, Kelletts, Markwells and Maynes whose names have become familiar to local residents. $e #rst recorded use of the name Toowong was in 1851 when J.C. Burnett marked Toowong Creek on his survey of lots for sale. $e name was then used in 1852 as a boundary descriptor in Land Purchase Certi#cates for these lots. (credit from http://www.toowong.org/)

$e essence of the overlay mapping method, presents my personal experiences with relations to place as a part of re"exive sustainability assessment. By producing overlap-ping maps of the park, the relationships between me, the people and the place can be acknoledged.

Water element

We came from the water; our bodies are largely water; and water plays a fundamental role in our psychology. We need constant access to water, all around us; and we can not have it without reverence for water in all its forms. But every-where in cities water is out of reach.

$ere is no other way to build up an adequate texture of wa-ter in cities: we need pools for swimming, ornamental and natural pools, streams of rain water, fountains, falls, natu-ral brooks and streams running through towns, tiny garden pools, and reservoirs we can get to and appreciate.

Preserve natural wet water parkland and make paths for people to walk along them and footbridges to cross them. Let the streams form natural barriers in the city, with tra%c crossing them only infrequently on bridges.

Whenever possible, collect rainwater in open gutters and allow it to "ow above ground, along pedestrian paths and in front of houses. In places without natural running water create fountains in the streets.

Public space

Without common land no social system can survive. $e common land has two speci#c social functions. 1. $e land makes it possible for people to feel com-fortable outside their buildings and their private territory, and therefore allows them to feel connected to the larger social system-though not necessarily to any speci#c neigh-bor.2. Common land acts as a meeting place for people.

Parkland

From the research, If children don’t play enough with other children during the #rst #ve years of life, there is a great chance that they will have some kind of mental illness later in their lives.

To provide a space for all ages is important for modern days, a space that will provide a meeting space within urban set-ting. $ere are very few spots along the streets of modern towns where people can hang out, comfortably, for hours at a time. An outdoor room is needed for Brisbane City - a partly enclosed place, with some roof, columns, without walls, perhaps with a trellis; place it beside an important path and within view of many buildings and landscape.

Reference:Alexander, C., Ishikawa, S. & Silverstein, M., 1977. A pattern language : towns, buildings, construction, New York: Oxford University Press.

$e visible landscape is believed to a&ect human be-ings in many ways, including aesthetic appreciation and health and well-being. $e literature review by Velarde and Tveit identi#ed that the main health aspects of ex-posure to landscapes related to reduced stress, improved attention capacity, facilitating recovery from illness, ameliorating physical well-being in elderly people, and behavioural changes that improve mood and general well-being. $ese e&ects have been addressed by means of viewing natural landscapes during a wall, viewing from a window, looking at a picture of a video, or experienc-ing vegetation around residential or work environments. $ere have been major advances in our understanding of the relationship between landscapes and human health.

Ulrich in his essay also has pointed out that views of na-ture, compared to most urban scenes lacking natural ele-ments such as trees, appear to have more positive in"u-ences on emotional and physiological states. $e bene#ts of visual encounters with vegetation can be linked direct-ly to health, and in turn related to economic bene#ts of visual quality.

A sense of place is a rich and dynamic dialogue between ourselves and the economic, social, cultural and eco-logical complexities of life (Beatley and Manning, 1997); places are always political and contested (Hayden, 1995; Stocker and Netherwood, 2006). Almost every place is a cultural landscape with many facets, layers and human expressions (Seddon, 1997) that re"ect and maintain power relations (Hayden, 1995). Indigenous commenta-tors like Marcia Langton (1998) have stated that all of Australia is a cultural landscape and that every part of the country has been touched, walked over, hunted on, and dreamt by its traditional owners and occupants for millennia. Consequently, wilderness is a misleading and inappropriate descriptor in Australia.

Reference:Beatley, T. & Manning, K. (1997). $e ecology of place: Planning for environment,economy, and community. Washington: Island Press.

Hayden, D. (1995). $e power of place: Urban landscapes as public history. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Netherwood, K., Buchanan, J., Stocker, L. and Palmer, D. (2006). Values education for relational sustainability: A case study of Lance Holt School and friends. In Wooltor-ton, S. and Marinova, D. (Eds). Sharing wisdom for our future. Environmental education in action: Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Association for Environmental Education (pp. 250–260). Sydney: AAEE.

Seddon, G. (1997). $e genius loci and the Australian landscape. In Landprints: Re"ections on place and land-scape (pp. 113–118). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Langton, M. (1998). Burning questions, emerging en-vironmental issues for indigenous peoples in Northern

Creating the new country. Imagine a city of a unique new typology that meets the needs of its inhabitants while maximizing the quality of work, play and relax. $is typology would embrace com-munities and their citizens as a "exible framework which adapts to environmental and economic changes.

FUTURE THOUGHTS

$e future transport system is coming under increasing pressure as more peo-ple choose to live and work in Toowong.

By 2025, Brisbane roads will be extremely congested if no new road, public transport or walking and cycling initiatives are implemented now.

Attitudes of concern for the quality of life and the environment are required to motivate people to develop the skills necessary for #nding out about the en-vironment and to take the necessary actions for environmental and economic problem-solving.

Toowong statutory plans strike a balance between providing necessary certain-ty for the development industry and the community, while being adequately "exible to allow buildings and uses over time as the needs of the city change.

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FIRE PARK proposes a new urban identity for Toowong as a model for the development of future suburb. FIRE PARK is a new urban typology that answers the needs of mod-ern Australia, its economy, social structures and ecological plans for.

As a reactive healing force, this city could renew weak urban zones in decline by #lling voids and dead space with functioning, thriv-ing neighborhoods. Most importantly, this new typology would have the capacity to maximize green space and solve infrastructural issues while creating an e%cient, accessible circulation system for public transit. FIRE PARK realizes this urban typology in the con-text of Toowong, a prime location for sustainable innovation at a large scale. Toowong faces problems incurred by current population density, loss of green public space, and decreasing viable land. Fire Park challenges these issues by changing Toowong’s building typol-ogy and open up more open space for the community. $e proposal burns a part of the residential and commercial area to open up the space for public.

By literally expressing distinct functions for its citizens, FIRE PARK relates strongly to the human scale while simultaneously decreasing density and increasing green space at the urban scale. FIRE PARK addresses four crucial aspects of sustainability. In the realm of social sustainability, the anonymous feeling of immense cities is challenged by interconnecting typically isolated diverse zones. In the economi-cal sense, increase green space invigorates the morale of Toowong’s dense society.