Through a combination of technology and design,suburbia could in fact be the most sustainable form of urban living.
Creating templated homes will degrade the suburbs further and leave councils and communities furious.
If a factory-made house or apartment is better in so many ways than traditional building on muddy sites with variable weather,why the low take-up?
Take it from one who’s tried:getting approval to build shop-top housing on this busy road is a costly process,frustrated at almost every turn.
Australia is now less binary,more ternary,which bodes ill for our political duopoly if they continue to get it wrong on housing.
Based on what it has proposed to date,it seems social housing is not a priority for the federal Labor Party.
A new report offers welcome solutions to Melbourne’s housing crisis,but it focuses on housing families when our demographics have changed dramatically.
Can we reimagine suburbia? We must,to save it from itself,so let’s make this our Battle for the Burbs.
In the new suburbia,Australians live cheek by jowl with little room for trees,cross-ventilation or sunlight.