In 1971, the City of Sydney Strategic Plan was released by Sydney City Council to guide city development and planning through to the year 2000.
As part of formulating the document, proposals were tendered from around the world with ideas on how to make our great city better.
The Daily Mirror published the feature article below summarising the proposals from 1970. For some of those proposals, I have separate clippings which could be explored further in a future entry such as the Woolloomooloo redevelopment scheme.
It envisioned a future Sydney with George Street and William Street being turned into boulevards, a Civic Centre in the southern part of the Sydney CBD along with the proposed redevelopment schemes for Circular Quay (i.e. Gateway Plaza site), The Rocks and Woolloomooloo.
Also there is mention of the closure of Martin Place at the George Street end, which was trialled in 1970 before being made permanent in 1971, and led to the closure of the entire street by the end of the decade.
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