Case Study Of Pyrmont-Ultimo

Aim
The Sydney suburbs of Pyrmont and ultimo are located on a peninsula on the western side of darling harbor. In earlier days the two suburbs ran along Union Street. Now the Pyrmont-Ultimo peninsula is a long strip of land known by locals that it is ‘into the deep waters of Sydney Harbour’. Beginning in the early 1800s the Pyrmont-Ultimo area was once occupied by many ‘blue-collar’ workers generally known as manual labour workers, the area was surrounded by industrial areas or the waterfronts. Since then there has occurred significant gentrification of old industrial sites and decayed buildings occurring in the Pyrmont- Ultimo peninsula, with the old buildings and sites being transformed into residential, commercial and community sites. As
As Pyrmont has a growing number of visitors and an increasing number of residential and, as well is known to be an wealthy area, residents have a want and need sometimes of having high security to protect themselves from outsiders and what they own by which includes living in a gated community or home, with security cameras and security guards which in turn make this a main key factor to pull these people in to these types of new communities because there is an elimination of what the elite don’t want. Furthermore, it was evident in Pyrmont/Ultimo that there is also old residential buildings that are present today available for general people with a need of a general home with no high security. The urban dynamics and spatial exclusion is a big success in Pyrmont-ultimo because its only two kilometres south-west of central Sydney and has things that people desire and need such as worldwide known brand stores available such as Chanel & Louis Vuitton, beautiful oceaneanic views, touristic places to see- being the Harbour Bridge, Opera House, Luna Park etc, theatres, restaurants and cafes, security available this in turn making Sydney’s “cosmopolitan lifestyle” welcome as well as enjoyable to all and suburbanisation not common. Through
As Pyrmont/Ultimo is only two kilometres south-west of Darling Harbour it eventually started to go through a gentrification process in commercial businesses and residential areas mostly turning something adaptive into adaptive reuse. Through observing the streets of Pyrmont/Ultimo mainly Harris St, there were live examples of gentrification of commercial businesses that are still present today such as; old school pubs that were mainly made of/ had tiled walls and were located on the corner of almost of every street that had been gentrificated either into cafe-restaurants or medical practises. Through Darling Harbour being so well off it had led to these improvements and the spreading out of the area Pyrmont/Ultimo, making it in a that big of a place today known for its architecture, commercial business’s and high security residential communities as well as government terrace flats. Below is an example of gentrification in a commercial