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Centennial Park c1890s

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Centennial Park c1890s

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State Library of New South Wales

[a116199 / PXE 711/199]

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Planning

From an accidental city without a plan, Sydney has become a city with many plans. The early town grew without controls, but later governments tried to regulate building and development, and keep up with necessary services and infrastructure. From 1900, resumptions, zoning and regulation were used to shape the city and its suburbs.

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Centennial Park

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The largest urban park in the southern hemisphere, developed as a parkland since the early days of European settlement. It also gives its name to the small residential suburb on its western fringe, whose most famous resident was Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White.