Suellen Fitzgerald assumed her role as the inaugural director of the parklands in 2008, following an act of parliament that enshrined the parklands as a self-governing authority.
estern Sydney Parklands, one of the largest urban park systems in the world, is continuing to evolve through a range of imaginative designs by some of Sydney’s best landscape architects. Its pattern of growth is related to the planning legacy of the County of Cumberland Green Web, as a “connected system that extended and enhanced areas of existing recreation and undevelopable land.” But it is also due to a new brand of landscape entrepreneurship, personified by Greater Sydney Parklands chief executive Suellen Fitzgerald, a landscape architect who, during her career,
