Haberfield

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Sue Jackson-Stepowski

Abstract

Walking around Haberfield’s wide, leafy streets, just five kilometres west of Sydney’s CBD, and enjoying its intertwining gardens, one might think this is how suburbia has always been. But look east, across the Hawthorne Canal into Leichhardt, and one sees the mish-mash of buildings associated with the appalling living conditions and blight of the nineteenth-century industrial city.

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Sydney's Suburbs
Author Biography

Sue Jackson-Stepowski

Sue Jackson-Stepowski is a heritage consultant and secretary of Australia ICOMOS