Category: Regionalism

Camden Hospital Nurses’ Quarters: cloistered veils
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Camden Hospital Nurses’ Quarters: cloistered veils

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Over 700 people witnessed the opening of the Camden Hospital Nurses’ Quarters were opened in 1962 by the NSW Health Minister WF Sheahan.

Cobbitty Anglican Church, a little bit of England celebrates 190 years
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Cobbitty Anglican Church, a little bit of England celebrates 190 years

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The English-style village of Cobbitty celebrates 190 years of the presence of the Anglican church.

Sydney’s urban fringe: a transition zone of hope and loss
1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · Airds · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Story · Campbelltown · Elderslie · History · Hope and loss · Land releases · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Leppington · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Mount Annan · Mount Gilead · Narellan · Oran Park · Place making · Regionalism · rural-urban fringe · Ruralism · Sense of place · Storytelling · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · The Oaks · Town planning · Transition zone · Uncategorized · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Sydney’s urban fringe: a transition zone of hope and loss

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Sydney’s rural-urban fringe is a site of winners and losers. It is a landscape where dreams are fulfilled and memories are lost. The promises of land developers in master-planned suburban utopias meet the hope and expectations of newcomers.

Sydney’s urban sprawl invades the Macarthur region
1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · 20th century · Attachment to place · Camden · Campbelltown · Collective Memory · Country town · Cultural Heritage · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Macarthur region · Memory · Peri-urban region · Place making · Placemaking · Regionalism · rural-urban fringe · Ruralism · Sense of place · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · Urbanism

Sydney’s urban sprawl invades the Macarthur region

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Urban sprawl has invaded the Macarthur region. It is re-run of the planning policies of the 1970s.