Columnist Michael Duffy argues that new planning techniques and leadership in Sydney are discouraging sprawl and forcing density into the cities and towns that can least support the growth.
"The rape of Sydney continues. Driven by a fundamentalist belief in urban consolidation, the concrete armies are penetrating one of the last bastions of the old city.
...Urban consolidation is allegedly about sustainability, but in fact -- as many other parts of Sydney already know -- it produces the opposite.
...This prompts the question of why the Labor Government has been able to get away with the unpopular policy of banning significant new housing on the urban fringe and forcing 70 per cent of new residences into existing areas. Despite the existence of an umbrella protest group called Save Our Suburbs, there has been no effective political opposition."
Thanks to Hugh Pavletich
FULL STORY: To save the city, first they destroy it
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