Category: Town planning

Camden needs a residential heritage-style guide
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Camden needs a residential heritage-style guide

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Camden Needs A Residential Heritage Style Guide to provide assistance to home owners to conserve and restore their historic cottages.

Beulah and Sydney’s Urban Sprawl
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Beulah and Sydney’s Urban Sprawl

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Beulah estate, Sydney's urban sprawl and the Appin Road

Lost Campbelltown heritage
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Lost Campbelltown heritage

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The lost built heritage of a country town on Sydney's urban fringe at Campbelltown

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.

Nepean River, more than a water view
Aesthetics · Attachment to place · British colonialism · Camden · Cobbitty · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Floods · Heritage · Historical consciousness · History · Landscape aesthetics · Leisure · Local History · Macarthur · Memory · Menangle · Myths · Nepean River · Place making · Ruralism · Second World War · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Town planning · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · War · War at home · Water

Nepean River, more than a water view

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The Nepean River and its floodplain is much more than just a water view. It is cultural and natural icon in the Sydney basin.

Democracy, Place and Local Government
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Democracy, Place and Local Government

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Local politics is a special beast and is particular, local, small fare and accessible. It is parish pump politics at its best.