Skip to main content

Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney
Multimedia
Rouse Hill 2009

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Rouse Hill 2009

Image courtesy of

[0906-1210-21]

Search

Browse

Browse
- Artefacts
- Buildings
- Events
- Natural Features
- Organisations
- People
- Places
- Structures
- Entries
- Multimedia
- Subjects
- Roles
- Contributors

Connections

Appears in

Built environment

Places

Rouse Hill

Footer

Home
About
Copyright
Blog
Facebook
Twitter

Airview

Airview is a commercial aerial photography company supplying the Dictionary with both stock and artistic aerial photography

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.

Rouse Hill

North-western residential and semi-rural suburb named for early settler Richard Rouse. It is believed to be the site of the 'Battle of Vinegar Hill' during the 1804 Castle Hill convict rebellion.

full record »