Caption: This is really the intersection between Mackeller, City South and Missendon Park. On the right you can see the factories of the industrial areas outside the inner city. Then there is the tunnel that comes from the other side of the park. The big orange building is the university. I've noticed that many cities have truly ugly public buildings built in the mid-20th century. The UTS (University of Technology Sydney) building is one example that comes to mind, along with Sydney's convention centre and Darling Harbour.

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Caption: Here is a closer up example of the rowhouses that make up much of the suburb. Now gentrified and probably worth a great deal of money, these would have originally been part of the working class suburb escaping from the high prices closer into the city. There is very little public transport in the suburb which is a major problem, but it lies in between the subway lines that go either to Mackeller or to Bradfield.

As cities grow I think people flee to the suburbs from the centre, but as the population expands  and public services like transport get more crowded, there is a definate move back into the immediate ring of suburbs just around the city, like I mentioned in the last entry. I'm unsure what happens outside of that, but many university suburbs have sprung up in Sydney after the uni is built. Examples that work somewhat like Missendon Park include the Newtown area just near Sydney University with its row houses and student friendly atmosphere. Others include Pyrmont (which was an old housing commission suburb) near UTS, and to a lesser extent, Randwick and Kensington near the University of New South Wales (but they also have other things in the mix like proximity to beaches, being closer to more prosperous Eastern Suburbs suburbs like Waverley and Bondi.

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