Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. It is also part of the Darling Harbour region. It is Australia's most densely populated suburb. There is a contrast between the rich and the poor in Pyrmont and yet both live in the same area due to government housing. A lot of the population of Pyrmont is young working people. From the 2011 census the population is 11,618. The population will have risen since then due to the fact that it is outdated. Its postcode is 2009. The Eora tribe of Indigenous Australians were the first custodians of the land. Some of the main places in Pyrmont include The Star casino which …show more content…
It was the busiest port and provided work for a lot of men. These men lived in Pyrmont which meant the population was high and full of working men. Pubs for the men were created and more businesses were brought to the area. By 1900, the population reached 19,000. The area shipped wool, refined sugar, milled flour and generated electricity for the entire city of Sydney. When World War Two started manufacturing began to decline and people moved away from the area as the number of jobs decreased. In the 1950s the industry relocated to other areas within Sydney. By the 1970s almost all industries which made Pyrmont had moved and in 1981 the population hit its lowest ever with only 1590 people living there. In 1991 the Governments Better Cities Program was started to renew areas all over Australia. The Pyrmont Ultimo region was selected to be renewed. In their final report released in 1996, the government talked about some of the changes made and why Pyrmont was chosen. The report …show more content…
The government housing within Pyrmont is still there and is experiencing urban decay compared to the rest of Pyrmont. This has created conflict amongst the community. Some people believe that they should knock it down and build more apartments to increase the population of Pyrmont and therefore help Pyrmont’s urban growth. Some believe that they should be relocated as they don’t deserve to live in an area that is so wanted. The other people believe that they deserve to be there as they have been there for a while. This is an example of different views of equality and the way a council should be run. The government housing is different from the rest of the area as the houses are old and contrast the urban skyscrapers around it. This asks the question of whether we demolish these houses and relocate the people to a different area to increase the urban growth and make Pyrmont all urban renewed or leave
It is the 21st century: more than 85 per cent of Australians inhabit the urban areas sprawling along the coasts, and more and more rural areas struggle to survive.
Gentrification is defined as the process by which the wealthy or upper middle class uproot poorer individuals through the renovation and rebuilding of poor neighborhoods. Many long-term residents find themselves no longer able to afford to live in an area, where the rent and property values are increasing. Gentrification is a very controversial topic, revealing both the positive and negative aspects of the process. Some of the more desirable outcomes include reduced crime rate, increased economic activity, and the building of new infrastructures. However, it is debated whether the negatives overwhelm the positive. An increase in the number of evictions of low-income families, often racial minorities can lead to a decline of diversity
In 1900, Pyrmont was an important port and industrial area, with a population of almost 30 000 people. There was a wide range of industries and services present including wharves, dockyards, warehouses, abattoirs, wool stores, railway yards and even an incinerator for the disposal of Sydney’s waste. It was deemed a working-class suburb with a predominantly Irish/Catholic population. As the income for Pyrmont was only modest, semi-detached cottages were the most common type of housing present.
Baulkham Hills, located approximately 29km North West of Sydney, is one of the largest suburbs in area and population within the Hills with a population of 33,661 people (Census 2001). Baulkham Hills as a suburb not including Bella Vista makes up about 24% of the total population (139,404) of the Baulkham Hills Shire. 23,282 people were born in Australia and 25,855 speak English only. 30,179 live in separated houses as opposed to other forms such as flats, units or townhouses. (Census 2001)
83% of people surveyed believe that Warragamba Dam is very important for Sydney’s water supply. A fellow member of the Ascham staff said that they believed this because
This paper will be predominantly focusing on public housing within Ontario. Not only will it look at the basics of Ontario but examine more directly on Regent Park within Toronto. It will discuss what public housing is and the explanation for why it exists, the government housing programs that are present with regards to public housing and the results of the government programs. The Purpose of this essay is to argue that the problem of public housing will never
Gentrification In Houston, New York, Chicago, and other major urban cities of the United States, gentrification is becoming a major talking point. Though, gentrification is becoming something big, not that many people who speak about it are clearly aware of the subject, they just know it is going on. In this paper, I will briefly describe gentrification, and will mainly use Immanuel Kant’s theory to analyze why gentrification is wrong, whilst also comparing it to the utilitarian approach to gentrification. Gentrification is a complicated term that gets defined in many ways by people that do not understand it; the term usually ends up being romanticized instead. It often gets defined by various people as the renovation of lower income neighborhoods to make them safer or “cleaner”.
“gentrification as an ugly product of greed”. Yet these perspectives miss the point. Gentrification is a byproduct of mankind's continuing interest in advancing the notion that one group is more superior to another and worthy of capitalistic consumption with little regard to social consciousness. It is elitism with the utmost and exclusionary politics to the core. This has been a constant theme of mankind taking or depleting space for personal gain.
In discussions of Gentrification, one controversial issue has been with displacement. Gentrification is the process of renovating and repairing a house or district so that it complies to wealthier residents (Biro, 2007, p. 42). Displacement is a result of gentrification, and is a major issue for lower income families. Gentrification is causing lower-income residents to move out of their apartments because they’re being displaced by upper class residents who can afford high rent prices and more successful businesses. Throughout out the essay, I will discuss how gentrification affects lower income residents and how it results in displacement. Then I will follow on by discussing some positive and negative effects that take place because of Gentrification.
Sydney is situated in zone of the subtropical oceanic climate which characterized by moderately hot summers and moderately warm winter. This climate conditions very favorable for people, animals and plants habitation. How we can see in the table "Mean Daily Temperatures", temperature does not fall below zero. It is congenially for agriculture, especially sowing corn. More than half of the arable land is occupied by wheat. In addition, people grow citrus, pineapples, mangoes and sugarcane.
There have been decades of debate within Australia, focusing on the need and construction of a second Sydney Airport. Deemed a controversial topic of discussion, it was first advocated for by the State Government back in 1962. The State Planning Authority (SPA) was appointed as the head of planning and development for both the airport and the entire Western Sydney region (ABC News, 2014). Badgery’s Creek was quickly delegated as a possible location for the second airport, where a ‘No Development Zone’ was implemented surrounding the site (ABC News, 2014). However, it was believed that
Gentrification is described as the renovation of certain neighborhoods in order to accommodate to young workers and the middle-class. For an area to be considered gentrified, a neighborhood must meet a certain median home value and hold a percentage of adults earning Bachelor’s degree. Philadelphia’s gentrification rate is among the top in the nation; different neighborhoods have pushed for gentrification and have seen immense changes as a result. However, deciding on whether or not gentrification is a beneficial process can become complicated. Various groups of people believe that cities should implementing policy on advancing gentrification, and others believe that this process shouldn’t executed. Both sides are impacted by the decision to progress gentrification; it is unclear of the true implications of completely renovating impoverished urban areas; gentrification surely doesn’t solve all of a community’s issues. I personally believe that gentrification is not necessarily a good or bad process; gentrification should occur as a natural progression of innovative economies and novel lifestyles collide within certain areas. Policy involving gentrification should not support the removal of people out of their neighborhood for the sake of advancement.
Beginning in the 1960s, middle and upper class populations began moving out of the suburbs and back into urban areas. At first, this revitalization of urban areas was 'treated as a 'back to the city' movement of suburbanites, but recent research has shown it to be a much more complicated phenomenon' (Schwirian 96). This phenomenon was coined 'gentrification' by researcher Ruth Glass in 1964 to describe the residential movement of middle-class people into low-income areas of London (Zukin 131). More specifically, gentrification is the renovation of previously poor urban dwellings, typically into condominiums, aimed at upper and middle class professionals. Since the 1960s, gentrification has appeared in large cities such as Washington D.C., San Francisco, and New York. This trend among typically young, white, upper-middle class working professionals back into the city has caused much controversy (Schwirian 96). The arguments for and against gentrification will be examined in this paper.
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