Uniformity gone bonkers

By Kate Walker
Updated February 20 2013 - 9:38am, first published 4:00am

In the early days of Yass’ history, today’s equivalent of a bureaucrat sat in his office in Sydney and planned the systematic layout of the new town of Yass. Our 19th Century pen pusher was a very orderly chap. He loved the control that a grid provides. He loved its rhythmic symmetry. Every house would fit into his grid of squares and rectangles. Such a tidy application of a common rule: uniformity and conformity! All under control!

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