Urban Growth and Decline in Pyrmont:
Issue: Implications for sustainability, social justice and equality associated with the urban consolidation in Pyrmont (i.e. How economically and environmentally sustainable are the impacts of the issue and who are the winners and losers)
Thesis: With a rapid increase in population, scarcity of inner city land, and the need to provide economic and environmentally sustainable urban dwellings, Pyrmont has undergone renewal and consolidation, which has encouraged high-income, high-density living. However this has created a widening social gap between the rich and the poor.
Introducing Pyrmont:
Pyrmont is a component of the City of Sydney, which is a capital council that is accountable for the commercial, financial,
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This information will be used to help reference and support my observations.
Secondary research includes using the web as the most prominent source, as well as textbooks that document the history and future plans of the area. Hand-outs given out in class of completed surveys will also be used as a starting point for gathering statistics as they are concise and easy slot into to the RAP. With the utilisation of both of these resource types, the compiled RAP will be a reliable collection, consisting of a diversity of findings and information.
Nature of the Issue:
Pyrmont was not always a contemporary, well-developed and up to date region, but was once the heartland of a thriving industrial manufacturing export site. Dating back to the 19th century, Pyrmont was thought to be a “slum” region, with urban decay picking up after the World War II as older residents took to the suburbs and industries were forced to shut down due to a lack of work. (PH, 2008, page
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(Helen McIsaac, Glyn Trethewy, Sue van Zuylen, 2007, Chapter 9.3). The blue and white-collar workers and the new and long-term residents had all without a doubt been cut down the middle.
After Pyrmont’s peak in the 1940’s, the population of this working class sector began to decline, due to a combination of the technology revolution in the 1990’s, a decrease in the demand for sea transportation, and the classification of Pyrmont as a low socio- economic area.
The information age and advances in communication technology set the foundation for Pyrmont’s step into the next millennium. The area had now undergone major urban renewal, with large technology and media companies, such as Channel 7, Channel 10 and Fairfax Media setting up their state, domestic and international headquarters here (SHFA, 2013, Page
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. In the 1960’s however, Pyrmont-Ultimo was deteriorating at a fast rate and became an unfortunate example of urban decay.
According to Lehrer, U., & Wieditz, T. (2009), Toronto saw a massive population growth in a period of thirty years due to the extensive construction of high-rise condominium towers which led to the city being divided into three distinct cities: “city of the rich, the shrinking city of middle-income households, and the growing city of concentrated poverty.” According to the article the division is caused by the development of condominiums as the new form of gentrification which displaces the poor people and focuses to attract the higher-income people to the area.
“Gentrification refers to trends in the neighborhood development that tend to attract more affluent residents, and in the instances concentrates scale commercial investment.”(Bennet,).This means that gentrification can change how a neighborhood is ran or even how much income the community takes in depending on what businesses come in and what class of people decide to invest into that community. In this paper i will be discussing gentrification and and poverty, pros and cons of gentrification, relationships due to gentrification, conflict due to gentrification, reactions/ feelings or of small business owners about
For over half a century the Pittsburgh region was the largest concentration of steel making in the world. Its collapse was spectacular. The mill towns strung along the Monongahela Valley have now suffered forty years of decline. Much of their shabby infrastructure and buildings (at best homely even in their prime) has decayed, most of their population has fled to the metropolitan suburbs or left the region, and those that remain, for the most part poor, struggle or live off memories. Regeneration is a continuing problem for public policy makers as the mill towns struggle on life-support systems — public welfare for individual households; funding from federal, state and local agencies for public services, projects and a plethora of `initiatives´. Re-born they are not.
...ial Inequality, and Susatinable Development in Baltimore,” Pp. 123-56 in The Social Sustainability of Cities edited by M. Polese and R. Stren. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Herbert Gans piece on the mass production of suburban styled homes like Levittown with its homes on the outskirts of the city and mixed land uses closer within the core “ analyzes the suburbs and makes it evident that they are not a utopia” no matter the societal segregation they represent (Herbert Gans). These areas have their burdens resulting in physical and social isolation, no access to transportation, the start of gender roles, and inadequate decision making. In comparison, Pleasantville was a society of segregation due to the land constraints and urban planning of the society. Its visible that there is an increase in segregation between the suburban population and inner city. The higher class living in the suburbs would remain in that area unless it was for work.
Cities during the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century showed great increase in population in Britain and created terrible conditions for the poor working class and their families. These unbelievably harsh living conditions can be seen on image 1 and 3 where families are forced to live in an overcrowded and inadequate room. There was a very high demand of houses and many were constructed in terraced rows that can be seen in image 4. Some of these houses had just a small yard at the rear where an outside toilet was placed. Others were ‘back to back’ without yard as shown in image 2. The people who lived in cities needed cheap homes as the Industrial Revolution continued to grow.
* Sheller, M. (2000). The City and the Car. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 24 (4), 737 – 757.
“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.
...lishing of new factories needed to be prevented and that some old factories had to be removed. This enormous loss of both factories and factory workers caused for a lot of buildings to be abandoned. After some years, when the industry and population were successfully reduced, some people moved into Birmingham (again). But it wasn’t and would never be the industrial centre it had been before.
Now within the rest of this paper you will be finding a few different things getting discussed. Staring it off we will be discussing the articles that we have found to make our arguments and hypotheses. After wrapping up the literature reviews we will be discussing the hypotheses thus continuing onto our variables and indicators. Once we discuss our hypotheses we will be moving onto the research design. The research design will have our general issues, sampling, and methods.
Finding out about research that already exists will help form new research. Examples of secondary data. Internet Books / Magazines Newspapers Office statistics The government statistics service The Office of National Statistics. Centre for applied social surveys.
Executive Intelligence Review Economics Staff. “Deindustrialization Creates ‘Death Zones’.” Executive Intelligence Review. Jan 6, 2006: 4-26. Print.
As previously implied, cities are currently the antithesis of even the barest sense of sustainability. To succinctly define the term “sustainability” would be to say that it represents living within one’s needs. When it comes to the city, with almost zero local sources of food or goods, one’s means is pushed and twisted to include resources originating far beyond the boundaries of the urban landscape. Those within cities paradoxically have both minimal and vast options when it comes to continuing their existence, yet this blurred reality is entirely reliant on the resources that a city can pull in with its constantly active economy.
For this research, I used primary and secondary sources to carry out my report for this information.