A History by Design

Brisbane Maps

  
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Brisbane and suburbs in 1924, with tramways, parks and sporting fields prominently marked. With the creation of a single regional council in 1925, the city of Brisbane covered 385 square miles, but despite the population growth and suburbanisation of the 1920s, less than half this area was developed by the mid-1930s.

Fryer Library, RAB Map G9004.B67S1.S15.1924.B7 1924

A comprehensive survey of the city's territory was a foundation stone of the new council's 'scientific' approach to town planning. It was intended that the survey would form the basis of a zoning system which would proscribe the kind of development appropriate for each area of the city. Work on the survey began shortly after the City's inauguration in 1925, but was disrupted by budget cuts during the Depression. The civic survey was not completed until 1939. This 1928 map was one of the first to be produced as part of the survey process.

Fryer Library, Map G9004.B67.S63.1928.C57 1928

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Brisbane and Suburbs, street & road map, c1931

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