Abstract
Chapter 4 describes the importance of the waterfront and the connection between the city and the water and provides an overview of Sydney as a post-industrial waterfront city, focusing on The Rocks and Darling Harbour. This chapter also maps the restructuring of Sydney, explaining how the introduction of a new economic system relocating the industry and replacing it with blue- and white-collar workers in the city centre led to the decentralisation of the urban waterfront. It draws attention to the neoliberal urban policies that triggered the decline of the waterfront, resulting in the decentralisation and deindustrialisation of the city centre. This chapter also frames how the shift from the industrial (Fordist) to the post-industrial (post-Fordist) economy moved Sydney from the negative connotations of industrial influence by putting industrial heritage into a residual or less important heritage category.
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Notes
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The term “industrial landscape” is used to express the dwelling units of the manpower enabling the production and the environmental texture that they form (Cossons 1993).
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Anna Storm uses the term “post-industrial scars” as polluted ground, abandoned and overgrown, a bustling urban area or a dilapidated factory (Storm 2014).
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This consumption is symbolised by its precincts such as Darling Harbour that contain a museum, a festival marketplace, a hotel, a casino, a restaurant, a conference centre, an exhibition facility and the general ambience of a theme park (Freestone 2000a).
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The suburbs were developed as an opportunity and an alternative to the crowding of central cities. The American Dream was known as an ideal and frequently associated with homeownership, if all metropolitan residents were confined to central-city boundaries. Development activity outside central cities has been enabled by innovations in transportation as well as public subsidies that have borne the cost of infrastructure such as roads, water supply and electricity. The trend towards deconcentrated urban form was further advanced by the advent of the automobile culture (Calthorpe 1993).
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Cahill Expressway in central Sydney completed in 1962 (Alexander 2000).
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Kaya, E. (2020). Post-Industrial Waterfront of Sydney: Place from Production to Consumption. In: Transformation of Sydney’s Industrial Historic Waterfront. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9668-7_4
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