housing strategy is dense–city is a threat to families

By:

Vikki Campion

In:

The Daily Telegraph Australia

Kotkin said Sydney’s planning laws tended to favour high-rise developments concentrated closer to city centres.

“Why, in a city like Sydney, where you had wonderful inner ring suburbs, with single family homes, very pleasant places, places you want to raise kids, do they want to densify them and turn them into places people don’t want to raise kids?”