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Built Environment

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Built Environment

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Notting, William Albert

Wyatt, Annie

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Built Environment

Built environment

Built over tracks, campsites, rock art and middens used for thousands of years before the dispossession of the Aboriginal people, Sydney's early haphazard development was given form by public buildings. As public transport developed, suburbs spread, and throughout the twentieth century, town planners struggled with developers to direct the form and extent of the city. After World War II, city buildings got taller, outer suburbs sprang up ever further away, and issues of heritage and architecture were contested. In the twenty-first century, concerns about environment, urban density, public transport and renewed infrastructure are driving change.

Notting, William Albert

Accountant and estate agent who was a keen sailor and the Commodore of the Sydney Sailing Club. He recognised the importance of keeping access to Sydney Harbour in public hands and as founder and secretary of the Harbour Foreshore Vigilance Committee in the early 1900s lobbied the state government to resume lands and create public reserves.

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Wyatt, Annie

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Conservationist and founder of the National Trust movement.

Architecture

Building

Community infrastructure

Urban change and planning