Description
Reimagining City Hill. Join Salon Canberra and the City Renewal Authority for a conversation on the future of Canberra's civic heart.For a century, City Hill has been a space that Canberra never learned to use.
Sitting in the centre of Walter Burley Griffin’s geometry, City Hill was imagined as the civic heart - and a counterweight to parliamentary power up the road.
Encircled by the fast flow of Vernon Circle, the five-hectare green island at its heart became a place to drive past, rather than wander into. A hill designed as a gathering place turned into a roundabout.
But City Hill must become a loved, contemporary green place in the heart of our city that is well integrated with the surrounding cultural and civic places. The fast evolution of these places means this is the time to act on City Hill.
Over the next two decades, the city centre is changing shape with Light Rail Stage 2A, new workplaces and cultural spaces, and thousands more residents, workers and students. City Hill will be surrounded by people who need it.
The City Renewal Authority’s 2024 Ideas Exhibition drew 600-plus submissions and 69 designs with one repeated message: “Create places for us to stay, not just walk past.”
This Salon Canberra conversation takes the next step, in partnership with the City Renewal Authority.
| Period | 12 Mar 2026 |
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| Held at | ACT City Renewal Authority, Australia, Australian Capital Territory |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |