Sydney Australia 1788 1988 History Photos Signed Mayor North Sydney Shreveport

Description: North Sydney 1788-1988 Michael Jones 1988 Allen Unwin Australia first edition 304 page illustrated hardcover Inscribed/signed “for Hazel Beard, Mayor of Shreveport with very best wishes from Roslyn Crichton - Mayor of North Sydney June 1991” ________________________________ Cities normally grow outward's in concentric circles, with a dominant center. In Sydney the barrier of the harbor and deliberate government policy is restricted to growth of the North shore. Sydney expanded in a rough semi circle to the west and south, often following railway and tram lines. Nor Sydney was a hilly sandstone district ideally suited to being another darling harbor because of its many deep-water base and extensive water frontages. It was only 500 metres from Sydney city yet was denied easy access to the booming center of our most important city until the harbour bridge opened in 1932... Preface Introduction Waiting for the bridge Aborigines local self-government denied unity is strength: North Sydney super-Council 1890 defend the boundaries open space North Sydney at the senses 1856-1933 a healthy suburb? A temporary Venice the revolutionary tram an expensive and largely useless railway members of Parliament The Bridge of sighs a second Brooklyn North Sydney’s Identity crisis Industry white-collar factories and flats finding a center a great place when they finish it

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