Introduction
Sydney's recent development has been characterised by a series of large scale urban projects on brown-field sites. Sites such as Zetland, East Darling harbour, or the former Carlton United Brewery are the venues for public debate over density, sustainability and the nature of public space in the city. White Bay is one of the last under-developed sites on Sydney Harbour near the CBD. At 80 hectares, bordered by established neighbourhoods, bisected by a major road, in the shadow of the Anzac Bridge, the site presents major challenges for the urban designer. Though there are no impending plans to develop the site, whatever is eventually built here will be extremely visible, and will inevitably speak volumes about the nature of Sydney's urbanism in the twenty-first century.
