Write about The Brewery Yard Building in Central Park Sydney Australia
Some information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park,_Sydney
https://www.archdaily.com/770027/the-brewery-yard-tzannes
https://nawic.com.au/NAWIC/NAWIC/Event_display.aspx?EventKey=NSW221013
https://brewerycentralpark.com.au/documentation
https://www.afr.com/property/commercial/last-piece-of-sydney-s-central-park-puzzle-sells-to-melbourne-investor-20191201-p53fu3
Instructions
For this report, we want you to:
• describe ONE urban landscape feature that you observed on your field trip and tell us why you found it interesting;
• analyse how that landscape feature came to be the way it is, and what that tells us about urbanisation in Sydney.
Further information
What do you mean by ‘urban landscape feature’?
In asking you to choose an urban landscape feature, we are asking you to choose something very specific and small-scale. In other words, we do not want you to write something general about a place like ‘Newtown’ or ‘Marrickville’. Rather, we want you to ‘zoom in’ on
a specific feature or object in an urban landscape. The largest scale you should write about would be a street or a block of streets. But we imagine many of you might write about a something relatively small scale that you found interesting on your trip. This could be
something like:
• a house or building;
• a shop or restaurant;
• a piece of infrastructure, such as a surveillance camera or a sign or a bus stop;
• a piece of graffiti or street art that you observed;
• etc.
What makes for a good ‘description’ of an urban landscape feature?
Your description should be more than one line. For instance, if you are writing about a restaurant: Where is it located? What kind of restaurant is it? How big is it, how much does the food there cost, what can you find out about who owns it? Etc. Your description could
be illustrated by pictures if you have them. Given that we are asking for a description, this does not necessarily need to be accompanied by any academic references – although you might draw on some academic and academic sources in your description. Why did you pick that landscape feature?
You should say a little about why you have selected this particular landscape feature, and why it is significant. Here, you should be writing in the ‘first person’, about your interest the landscape feature you have chosen.
How should you analyse the landscape feature you have chosen?
The best reports will include interesting descriptions, AND offer insightful and interesting analyses by relating those observations to concepts covered in lectures, tutorials, and your own further reading. The analysis should take up the majority of your report. So, for example, if you chose a place of worship as your landscape feature, your analysis should ‘zoom out’ and consider that place of worship in its wider urban context. To guide your analysis, you might consider how that particular place relates to other dimensions of
the city, eg:
• what broader urbanisation processes shaped the feature you have chosen?
• which people were involved in its making, and/or its use?
• what kinds of practices have shaped that feature, and/or ‘take place’ there
• etc.
Your analysis does not have to consider all of those questions, or all of the other dimensions of the urban – that will depend on the landscape feature you have chosen, and which is
most appropriate and interesting to you.
