11. The Green Bans and Gentrification_SMR

The Green Bans and Gentrification by SoundMinds Radio In this episode, we take to the streets of Sydney. We meet public housing resident Barney Gardner at his house in the suburb of Millers Point, which is just under Sydney Harbour Bridge. I’ve spent a bit of time with Barney over the last couple of years, interviewing him for various research projects on inner city gentrification. Barney was born in Millers Point and has lived there all his life. In 2014, he was told he had to move out of his house and the neighbourhood. The public housing he was living in was being sold off. For most of the last two centuries Millers Point’s proximity to major wharves and maritime industries saw the place develop as a largely low-income, working class neighbourhood. In the early 1970s the ‘Green Bans’ saved the suburb from modernist redevelopment. We talk to Nicole Cook, a Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, about urban development in Sydney, and what the Green Bans teach us about Global Sydney. Nicole is a Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities at The University of Wollongong. Nicole is an urban geographer with research interests in urban governance, power and participation, social movement and resident activism, housing and home. Barney Gardner was born in Millers Point and has lived there all his life. AUDIO Blue Dot Sessions, Outside the Terminal The Kyoto Connection, Close to the Abyss NSW Parliament, Life time resident Barney Gardner addresses crowd outside NSW Parliament House Tanya Plibersek, Millers Point Public Housing Blue Print for Living, Iconic Buildings: Sirius Building SHFATheRocks, Jack Mundey and the Victory – Part 3 of 3