Essay On Pyrmont

About Pyrmont

Pyrmont is located 2 km west of Sydney CBD. It is situated on Sydney Harbor and so many of the houses and establishments harbor bridge views. Pyrmont is bounded by the shoreline of Port Jackson in the north, Pirrama Road, Murray Street and Pyrmont Street in the east, Fig Street in the south and Wattle Street and Blackwattle Bay in the west (City of Sydney Community Profile, 2014). Pyrmont was once a key component of Sydney’s industrial docklands, and so as a result the physical environment is filled with old shipyards and factories which developers have maintained the external shell of, but refurbished the interior into sophisticated offices and apartments. (Commentary for photo story, Mrs. Mitchell , 6th August 2014)

In Pyrmont

Urban consolidation is the process of increasing the amount of medium to high density housing in areas that already have urban infrastructure in place. ( Pearson, 2014)

It aims to reduce the environmental impacts and government expenses caused by urban sprawl. By increasing housing density, homes built on ‘quarter acre’ blocks are subdivided to accommodate units in suburbs such as Pyrmont. (McIsaac, Trethewy, Zuylen., 2007, page 162)

Pyrmont’s community and its local government have juxtaposing responses to urban consolidation. Through mainly my primary fieldwork I conducted and Geography Focus 2 for secondary research, I will investigate this

There are many different reasons why but majority of the Pyrmont population disagree with the urban consolidation that is occurring in Pyrmont and want it to be stopped. Some people believe that high-density housing is environmentally damaging. High-density living creates a lager number of people per hectare, who all use our natural resources, which causes more greenhouse gases to be emitted into our atmosphere. . (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2010)

Other members of the Pyrmont community see the population density increasing as a spatial issue as parking your car near your residency would become next to impossible. As well as the parking issue they have a lot of concerns that, with the continued urban consolidation the few green spaces in the area may be replaced with multistory apartment blocks.

Another issue raised by the community is the concern that the high-density living is destroying the heritage of the Pyrmont area. Although some buildings exteriors have been preserved, their heritage is still lost as they are surrounded by modern bight coloured buildings. This is seen in figure 1 and 2, where the juxtaposing buildings are placed on each side of Bowman Street in