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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.

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Johnstons Bay

Bay between Rozelle and Pyrmont first spanned by the Glebe Island Bridge, and later the Anzac Bridge.

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Pyrmont Bay

Bay on the west side of Darling Harbour, adjacent to the Australian National Maritime Museum

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Pyrmont

Peninsular inner-west suburb between Darling Harbour and Johnston's Bay. Quarried for its sandstone, it later became a heavily industrialised working-class enclave, then gentrified as industry declined.

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Star City Casino

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The only legal casino in Sydney, the complex also contains theatres, restaurants and a hotel.