Positive And Negative Impacts Of Barangaroo Development

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The Barangaroo development brought up different aspects in relation to sustainability, social Justice and Equity. They affect the development in both positive and negative ways. Ecological sustainability means a capacity of ecosystems to preserve their vital purposes and processes, and retain their biodiversity in the full measure over the long-term and keep them going for next generation. Social Justice can be defined as the distribution of advantages and disadvantages within a society. Equity is like Social Justice but mainly focuses on Equality and Fairness. The development of Barangaroo mainly focuses on world-class enterprise excellence and sustainability. It also focuses on Social Justice like Jobs and equity-like access to the place.
Barangaroo is the most important development of
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They include providing 23,000 people with jobs when completed, 10000 indigenous people with jobs and employability skills during construction process, boost economic growth for the area, hosting public and cultural events, committing to enrich lives of community and their people, new waterfront spaces to celebrate Sydney, rebuilding the old Headland and also naming them based on the lands indigenous heritage and places exclusively built for hosting public spaces, markets, festivals, events, arts and movies.
They are also negative impacts on the wider community because everyone can't access some places and so on. The main negative impacts include being expensive, using public transport to the area which is congested, favouring rich people, limited public access, encouraging gambling, limited acknowledgement of past in some areas, 40% being private space, and etc. The bidding process also involved corruptions according to sources which affected local architects like Hill Thalis who mostly considered public and public spaces in their as opposed to favouring rich people and

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