Urban Development

I have a connecting in Australia at the moment and I learned about an interesting feature that got me searching the web for more information.  It is a "beach" in the center of a city.  The city is Brisbane in Queensland Australia and the beach is along the bank of the Brisbane River and is an attempt to reclaim land and create a natural corridor along the river.  The ares seems quite interesting  when I explored it on google earth where I also found a great pedestrian bridge called the Kurilpa Bridge.  It is far from the urban prairie lands of Chicago but a very interesting park space for the people who live in Brisbane.

http://www.visitsouthbank.com.au/











http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurilpa_Bridge

http://brisbanedevelopment.com/brisbanes-largest-urban-renewal-project-since-southbank/