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COVID-19 to reshape Sydney in ‘biggest way’ since Spanish flu as population stalls – Sydney Morning Herald
After years of stellar growth, the city’s population is forecast to rise by just 500 people next year due to a slump in the number of people migrating from overseas….
He believes there will be more pressure to decentralise from the main CBDs to smaller centres across the city, noting that Sydney already had an advantage over Melbourne in that regard.
“Melbourne has really only got the one centre, and this is part of the problem in a pandemic,” he said. “If you’ve got a sort of poly-centricity of centres, then that’s actually a better way to protect yourself with a pandemic. So Sydney is well set up there.”
With many people working from home, Mr Stokes signalled…
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