Australian Cities: Gadigal Country/Sydney with Elizabeth Farrelly (S02-EP07)

In this episode of the Super Urban Podcast, we focus on Sydney— the metropolis on the edge of the Pacific. When we mention Sydney, we can’t escape the picturesque: the glint of the harbour, or of the coast, Potts Point, Surry hills or Elizabeth Bay - Utzon’s spellbinding Opera House crowning the foreshore like a sculpture of civic ambition, or Harry Seidler’s – Australia square and MLC centre. And now even Barangaroo. But beneath this lineage is perhaps a city of stark contradictions—dense yet dispersed, prosperous yet precarious, planned yet chaotic. From colonial foundations to climate pressures, from housing and affordability crises to cultural tensions, we ask—what kind of city is Sydney really? And more importantly, what kind of city does it want to become?