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Sydney Olympic Park railway station, Homebush 2000

Sydney Olympic Park railway station, Homebush 2000

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Seselja, Loui

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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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Homebush

Inner western residential and commercial suburb serviced by the metropolitan railway network, and crossed by the M4 motorway and Parramatta Road. Its name comes from the estate of D'Arcy Wentworth.

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Sydney Olympic Park

Sporting venues, public spaces and parklands erected for the 2000 Olympic Games on reclaimed industrial land. It became a suburb in 2009 when the suburb of Homebush Bay was divided between Sydney Olympic Park and Wentworth Point.

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