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City Walk is a paved outdoor pedestrian area in
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Canberra Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The ci ...
. It was formed by the closure to traffic of Alinga Street between East Row in the east (at the City Interchange) and Binara Street (near
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) in the south-west, and named City Walk in January 1975. Pedestrians can walk almost the whole way without having to cross any roads with cars on them, except for Akuna Street. City Walk intersects with Garema Place and
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. Along the walk can be found the Canberra
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, the Centrepoint arcade, Canberra Centre shopping centre and the Canberra Times fountain. City Walk often has street performers, and events such as the
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