Collection: History Support Collection

Includes a detailed, documented and illustrated analysis of the basic nature and needs of people and vehicles.

Provides a demographic framework for metropolitan planning and an information base for those public and private agencies that require an understanding of the likely future size, composition and distribution of Sydney's population.

Discusses the importance of a proper understanding of the relationships between the natural environment and settlements is relevant to planning practice. Also discusses some of the ways in which the natural environment might be treated more consideratley by local planning practice.

Analyses government structures, functions, processes and personnel from 1842 to 1900. Drawing on parliamentary papers, politicians' private correspondence and surviving government records in an account of administrative challenges in a growing colony.

Western Sydney is one of the most rapidly growing regions in the State, receiving a significant portion of all new residents in NSW. This paper has arisen from the realisation that accurate estimates and projections are absolutely vital.