Before the housing development began, Oran Park was originally a raceway. The raceway was

This new game that people were beginning to play in Scotland, seemed to take a hold of the people. At the time, the sport was open to all people- no fees to pay, no starting times- just a short game of golf that would always be followed by a trip to the local mead hall. Most golf played was on bets and times have not changed on that fact. Men would go and bet that they could beat the man next to them on the links, which at the time were only sandy, hilly pastures. It was because this game was at such a simple stage in its history; it required skill and finesse that almost all people could do. So, to meet the demand of the people, many courses were built along high bluffs on the eastern coastline in Scotland. It is here that nature developed dunes, ridges, gullies and hollows that would challenge the best of golfers.

Two of NASCAR's oldest races are the ones that are at Charlotte, North Carolina and Daytona international Speedways. Charlotte Motor Speedway was designed and built in 1959 by Bruton Smith. Curtis Turner, stock car’s earliest driving star, was Smith's business partner. Turner became one of the first drivers on the NASCAR

Farmland got its start in 1852 after being founded by Henry D. Huffman and William Macy as a station on the Bellfontaine Railroad. On July 28th 1852 the two gentlemen platted Farmland on their farms. The town consisted of 152 lots including 6 streets, all of which are present today. Many cities that started on the railroad were thrust into a thriving economical environment. Being a station this allowed the city to quickly increase its population and annual revenue. There were many people that saw this economic opportunity and started forming farms alongside the town because it gave them quick access to the railroad. Thus their transportation costs were lower than other farmers. The agricultural business started to boom in the small town and drew more people into the town. People seized the economic opportunities that presented themselves. Sadly though the town did grow slow. But in 1870 the census found 532 people residing there. Starting from just two families the town gained over 500 residents in just 18 years. That is truly remarkable for the time that our nation was in.

Brook Farm – established by George Ripley as an experimental community in West Roxbury, MA. Individuals would gather to

By this time there had been four generations of farmers who had worked the land, but they did not realize they needed to keep some of the natural prairie grasses because that was what held the dirt down and kept it from blowing away. All the loose topsoil was exposed and at the mercy of the winds.

farming practices and thousands of acres of flat grassland being plowed, the soil no longer had

By 1920, numerous railroads and the infamous Tamiami Trail popped up in the heart of the swamp land, allowing for the expansion and development of the region. Quickly engineers and architects were constructing schools,

Up until WWII, the area was primarily used for farming, with the fluvial plains adjacent to the Oxley Creek in particular providing rich soils for farming. With close proximity to Brisbane, the District attracted increasingly more settlers to the area. In response to this population growth, transport corridors such as Logan Road came to prominence as conduits for the flow of goods and people (Robinson

It is difficult to picture a city or town without a park or a playground for everyone to enjoy free of charge. This thought is not as far fetched, as some might believe. The massive movement for communities to provide public lands for relaxation, leisure and play has its roots in the Progressive Reforms around the turn of the twentieth century. The congestion of urban centers and the fading concept of child labor creates unintended consequences such as an increase in crime, lack of natural landscape and no place for children to play. To combat this problem cities across the country begin the process of implementing government inspired play to replace the open country that children generations before used as their playground.

The different types of farms in the area vary from dairy farms, beef cattle farms, poultry farms, fruit and vegetable farms and bee keeping farms.

Have you ever dreamed of a community so perfect where you could live, work, and go to school on a daily basis? A community filled with so much happiness and peace among the society? A society where jobs are available as well as proficient teaching for citizens in that society. A place where citizens have the options of choice for which career they choose. A place filled with intelligent people who have high morals. Brook Farm was created to unite human relationships together.

There is an abundance of open spaces due to farming, orchards, and agriculture land. The open space is mostly private, except for parks. The average lot size for housing is

of tenure, better housing and relatively large, fertile plots which provided a nourishing diet for

* Old sites, such as the Garden festival site has been which had now been derelict for 20 years has been purchased for re - re development. This shows continued investment and development in the area highlighting the success of the scheme.

New Urbanism, a burgeoning genre of architecture and city planning, is a movement that has come about only in the past decade. This movement is a response to the proliferation of conventional suburban development (CSD), the most popular form of suburban expansion that has taken place since World War II. Wrote Robert Steuteville, "Lacking a town center or pedestrian scale, CSD spreads out to consume large areas of countryside even as population grows relatively slowly. Automobile use per capita has soared, because a motor vehicle is required for nearly all human transportation"1. New Urbanism, therefore, represents the converse of this planning ideology. It stresses traditional planning, including multi-purpose zoning,