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Urban design

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Living City: Sydney City Council's Blueprint for Sydney
Culwulla Chambers
Gazzard, Don
Gehl, Jan
Griffin, Walter Burley
Matraville Garden Village
Alfords Point 2007
Culwulla Chambers: Profit possibilities of the tall building 1915
Dacey Garden Suburb plan 1918
First page of letter from City Health Officer Henry Graham to the City of Sydney Council concerning Devonshire Street Cemetery, 15 January 1860
Headstones in Devonshire Street Cemetery, showing the tramline being constructed to remove them to Bunnerong Cemetery c1901
Master-planned estate, west Liverpool 1992
New homes in Western Sydney 2007
New suburb in Sydney's northwest 2006
Newington 2007
Sydney St Phillip - Land applied for by the Bank of NSW Bridge Street 8 August 1853

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Urban design

Living City: Sydney City Council's Blueprint for Sydney

Urban planning framework launched by the City of Sydney Council in 1994.

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Culwulla Chambers

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Thirteen (originally twelve) storey office block at King and Castlereagh Streets designed in 1911 by architectural firm Spain, Cosh and Minnett for the estate of the late Sarah Jane Marks, who had died in 1909. The building was named after her family's property Culwulla at Jamberoo as a memorial to her from her sons Dr Herbert J W Marks and Walter Moffitt Marks.  At 50 metres high, it was the tallest building in Sydney and fears were raised that Sydney would develop a New York style skyline with darkened streets. It was also considered a fire hazard as existing equipment was incapable of reaching this height. The city's building regulations were subsequently amended with the introduction of the 1912 Height of Buildings Act by the New South Wales government, restricting building heights to 45 metres. This remained in force until 1957.

Gazzard, Don

Architect with an interest in urban design, urban planning and urban activism.

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Gehl, Jan

Architect concerned with improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist.

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Griffin, Walter Burley

US-born architect and landscape architect best known for his role in designing Canberra and the Sydney suburb of Castlecrag.

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Matraville Garden Village

Garden village planned by the State Government in 1917 under the Returned Soldiers' Holdings Act with tenancy restricted to war-injured returned soldiers, sailors and war widows. Voluntary donations of both labour and building materials helped erect 93 homes and provided for a memorial reserve, parkland and sites for public buildings and churches but the scheme suffered mismanagement and corruption and by the 1970s most had been demolished.

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Alfords Point 2007

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[0409-2210-36]

Culwulla Chambers: Profit possibilities of the tall building 1915

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Contributed By
National Library of Australia
[Building Magazine, Vol. 15, No. 89 (12 Jan., 1915) p66, via Trove]

Dacey Garden Suburb plan 1918

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Contributed By
State Archives & Records New South Wales
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First page of letter from City Health Officer Henry Graham to the City of Sydney Council concerning Devonshire Street Cemetery, 15 ...

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Contributed By
City of Sydney Archives
[26/44/015]

Headstones in Devonshire Street Cemetery, showing the tramline being constructed to remove them to Bunnerong Cemetery c1901

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By
Ethel Foster
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[ON 146/373]
(Mitchell Library)

Master-planned estate, west Liverpool 1992

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By
Gabrielle Gwyther
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Private collection

New homes in Western Sydney 2007

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Airview
[0711-1465-82]

New suburb in Sydney's northwest 2006

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Airview
[0610-0704-67]

Newington 2007

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Airview
[0710-2930-85]

Sydney St Phillip - Land applied for by the Bank of NSW Bridge Street 8 August 1853

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Contributed By
State Archives & Records New South Wales
[NRS13886[X764]_a110_000060]
(Sketch books [Surveyor General][Sketch book 6 folio 59])

Urban change and planning