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Adelaide, from its earliest, was a Planned City , designed to incorporate only the good of cities prior and to set the standards for cities following. Paramount to that vision, are the Adelaide Parklands. Colonel William Light , the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, choose for Adelaide a site next to the River Torrens and also planned the city. Influenced by William Penn's design of Philadelphia , Light set Adelaide out on a grid of one square mile, interspaced by wide boulevards and incorporating five large public-squares. A residential enclave, North Adelaide , is set separate from the Central Business District , on an elevated hill overlooking the city. Light, recognising the importance of Public Park s, surrounded the entire city with the Adelaide Parklands, a virtual green-belt or, the ‘lungs of the city’. Today, some of these parklands have been used for cultural buildings, some is planned gardens and playing fields, and some remains almost as natural Adelaide Plains bushland. Institutions in the parklands area include:
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