Future living: Building resilient communities from scratch
By Bianca Dabu
21 December 2020
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Ever heard of Googong? While Googong’s grass-man might have put the community’s name on the map – by famously asking Scomo to step off his newly seeded lawn – today, Googong is a blueprint for Aussie communities.
The township of Googong has set a precedent for other localities in Australia having recently released an innovative blueprint, putting itself on the map as one of the country’s most sustainable communities and giving investors a taste of the future.
A suburb of Queanbeyan in NSW’s south-east, Googong has become one of the first communities in Australia to roll out Smart City infrastructure, putting a government grant of just over $1 million to good use.