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CITY CENTRE

Australia’s first thoroughfare, George Street, becoming a popular venue for informal games
was originally lined with clusters of mud- of cricket. Slated for housing in the 1830s, it
and-wattle huts. The gold rushes brought was saved by Governor Bourke, who reaffirmed
bustling prosperity, and by the 1880s shops its status as a park. Today it remains a peaceful
and the archi tecturally majestic edifices of oasis, with Sydney’s legal, financial and
banks dominated the area. The city’s first sky- commerical centre located to its north, full
scraper – Culwulla Chambers in Castlereagh of glamorous boutiques, discount stores,
Street – was completed in 1913, before the offices, arcades and malls. Major transport,
city council imposed a 46-m (150-ft) height infrastructure, public art and open space
restriction which remained in place until projects are under way to revitalize
1956. Hyde Park, on the edge of the city this core area, spearheaded by the widening
centre, was first used as a racecourse, later and pedestrianization of George Street.

Restaurants pp187–9
1 Bambini Trust 7 Diethnes 13 Glass Brasserie
2 Barrafina 8 Double Barrel Coffee Merchants 14 Gowings Bar & Grill
3 Bistrode CBD 9 Eleven Bridge 15 GPO Pizza by Wood
4 Bodhi in the Park 10 est. 16 Machiavelli
5 Chophouse 11 Felix 17 Madame Nhu
6 Danjee 12 Fix Wine Bar + Restaurant 18 Mother Chu’s
Vegetarian Kitchen
19 Mr Wong
BRIDGE STREET 20 No. 1 Bent St
21 Pablo and Rusty’s
22 Rockpool Bar & Grill
ST
23 Spice Temple
BLIGH ST PHILLIP M A C Q U A R I E S T R E E T 24 Sushi e
25 Sushi Hotara
26 Tetsuya’s
27 Workshop Expresso
28 York Lane
G E O R G E
Wynyard
P I T T S T R E E T
Martin
Place
ELIZABETH
YORK STREET
S T R E E T
C A S T L E R E A G H
KENT STREET
CITY CENTRE STREET
K I N G S T R E E T K I N G S T R E E T
S T J A M E S R D St. James
S T R E E T
M A R K E T S T R E E T
C L A R E N C E S T R E E T
GEORGE STREET
Y O R K S T R E E T
PHILLIP
PARK
C O L L E G E
HYDE
PARK COOK S T R E E T
PARK
S U S S E X S T R E E T
E L I Z A B E T H
D R U I T T S T P I T T S T R E E T PA R K S T R E E T W I L L I A M S T
Town Hall R I L E Y
HYDE
PARK
BATHURST STREET S T R E E T S T R E E T
C A S T L E R E A G H
K E N T S T R E E T
GEORGE STREET
Museum
S T R E E T
See also Street Finder, S T R E E T
maps 1, 4 & 5 L I V E R P O O L
For keys to symbols see back flap
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