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Panoramic view of Infirmary and Mint, Macquarie...

Panoramic view of Infirmary and Mint, Macquarie Street, Sydney c1870

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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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The Mint

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Building on Macquarie Street, originally part of Sydney Hospital and subsequently used as a mint.

Sydney Hospital

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Hospital founded by Lachlan Macquarie and housed in a number of buildings in Macquarie Street.

Macquarie Street

Street at the eastern edge of Sydney's central business district, designed as a ceremonial thoroughfare by Lachlan Macquarie and containing many of Sydney's public buildings. It was later the best address in the colony, and became a prestigious medical precinct in the twentieth century.

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Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary

Clinic created in 1826 to provide outpatient care for 'free poor persons, unable to pay for medical attendance'. It operated from several city premises before obtaining occupancy at the Rum Hospital. In 1844 it changed its name from the Sydney Dispensary to the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary, and in 1881 became the Sydney Hospital.

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The Domain

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Park in central Sydney which dates from the colony's earliest days.