Urban photographer, Tim Ritchie, takes to his bicycle every morning scouting out Sydney’s hidden delights @timritchie
city glimpses
Just behind The Cricketers Arms in Surry Hills is Fitzroy Lane, a pokey but heartwarming slice of Sydney's urban landscape.
FROM THE VAULT
AUTUMN 1987
This “feeling of déjà vu” from 35 years ago is eerily familiar . . . There is a real feeling of déjà vu in the inner-city today. Development, in its most unbridled form, is rearing its head everywhere we look. And people, after the first shock/horror, are engaging in the wishing game — wishing that sanity will prevail and our ever-so out-of-kilter eco system will return to the balance. Seemingly anything goes on the grounds of the economy without any thought of what is being left in its wake and what we are doing in the long-term. The regulators are busy deregulating and believing their own rhetoric that self-regulation and the market will sort everything out. The hard-won Environmental Planning Act has been made just another piece of paper — and we all know what you can do with that! But there’s another world out there — money is drying up fast, poverty is growing apace and the allimportant house is not even a glimmer at the end of the tunnel. It’s time to take this madness head on.
innersydneyvoice.org.au | Autumn 2022 | Inner Sydney Voice | 35
