A Post COVID-19 View of the Future of Sydney _ 'River Rail', and the development of the economic and residential corridor it enables, will be more important for Greater Sydney in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is clear from the international trends being observed in cities across the globe that the ways cities operate, the journeys that people will make, the relationship between work and home, and the interrelationship between CBDs/city centres and suburbs are changing. Much of this may be temporary until the population is vaccinated and we return to 'normal', but certain trends are being viewed as longer term and are likely to stick. These include the reinvention of CBDs and suburban centres to become more mixed-use in different ways – for example, more jobs in suburban centres, closer to where people live, and more residential in CBDs – and the more hybrid working life enabled by working from home, so that part of the working week will be spent at home and part in the office.
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The Southern Aerotropolis – The Future of Sydney Rediscovered
