I went to Canberra and stayed there for two days. This is my first time been to Canberra, due to the limited time, I couldn't look into the details of the city. I just got a quick glance of the city, however I still find something different about their urban design comparing with Sydney's urban design.
Canberra is the capital city of Australia and it is Australia's largest inland city. It is unusual among Australian cities, being an entirely planned city.
Not too many tall buildings in Canberra, even in the Civic area. I didn't see any large centralised shopping areas (except Westfield) in Canberra Civic like Pitt Street in Sydney. Quiet and nice city, away from busy traffics and crowed people. Vehicles here are allowed to have higher speed limit.
I found many pedestrian areas as the above picture shows. Places like town centres surrounded by some commercials and has a large public open space in the middle.
The natural habitat condition in Canberra is good.
The trees in Canberra can always create some colourful pictures. Unlike Sydney, most of the street trees are green. Canberra has some street trees with really nice colours.
Maple as street trees here. Really nice in autumn! Bicycle parking facilities everywhere. Fewer people, and more cyclists than in Sydney. The pedestrian paths are relatively wide comparing with the vehicle lanes.
There are many beautiful small lanes in Canberra. Most of the lanes are both for pedestrians and cyclists. Signs along the lane to remind the pedestrians pay attention to the coming bicycles and remind the cyclists to ring the bells to pass pedestrians.
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