Acknowledgements

This exhibition was curated by the History Program at the City of Sydney, with support from the City Archives and the Heritage Specialists.

The website was produced and designed by City of Sydney webteam.

Find Out More: General Reading

Paul Ashton and Duncan Waterson, Sydney Takes Shape: A History in Maps, Hema Maps Ltd, Brisbane, 2000. This is a revised and updated version of Max Kelly’s Sydney Takes Shape: A collection of contemporary Maps from Foundation to Federation, first published in 1977. This edition takes up the story from 1901, where Max Kelly left off, to the present day, closing with Sydney assuming the mantle of Olympic City.

Don Frazer (ed.), Sydney From Settlement to City: An engineering history of Sydney, Engineers Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney, 1989. This history includes chapters on Roads and Streets, Gas in Sydney, The Tramways of Sydney, Electricity Supply in the Sydney Region.

Shirley Fitzgerald, Sydney 1842-1992, Hale & Iremonger, Sydney, 1992. A social and political history of Sydney City Council that covers the works and administration of council. There are chapters on slum clearing and resumptions, roads and traffic, as well as sections on electricity and a broad discussion about Sydney’s streets. Well illustrated.

Find Out More: Specific Streets

Shirley Fitzgerald, Sydney’s Streets: A guide to Sydney City street names, Sydney City Council, Sydney, 1995. Covers the origins of street names, changes in street names, and the location of ‘disappeared’ streets. Organised alphabetically by street name. Out of print, but available in the City of Sydney library and the City of Sydney Library.

Geoffrey Scott, Sydney’s Highways of History, Georgian House, Melbourne, 1958. Covers many streets including: George Street, Pitt Street, Castlereagh Street, Bridge Street, Macquarie Street, The Rocks, Church Hill and its environs, Hyde Park and its surroundings, and O’Connell Street and its vicinity.

Andrew Andersons, “Macquarie Street: Sydney’s Premier Street from 1810 to the Bicentenary”, ch.8 pp.140-157, in Peter Webber (ed.), The Design of Sydney: Three Decades of Change in the City Centre, The Law Book Company Limited, Sydney, 1988.

Don Gazzard, “The ‘Peoples’ Promenade’: Martin Place 1860-1985”, ch.4 pp.70-93, in Peter Webber (ed.), The Design of Sydney: Three Decades of Change in the City Centre, The Law Book Company Limited, Sydney, 1988.

Clive Faro with Garry Wotherspoon, Street Seen: A History of Oxford Street, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000.

Max Kelly, Faces of the Street: William Street Sydney 1916, Doak Press, Paddington, 1982. A detailed study of the people, the businesses and the buildings of William Street prior to its widening by the city council in 1916.