More on the Fisherman's Bend thing

“It must insist we don’t go down the high-rise route but that we have high densities,” [RMIT planning professor] Buxton says.> > > > > “It’s got to be a very liveable area, it’s got to be based on squares, parks, be very walkable and low to medium rise.”

via theage.com.au

I don’t understand why people vilify highrise apartments so. They are not inherently good or bad for liveability. It’s about how they’re designed.

It’s possible to design very liveable high-density areas that people enjoy. Look at Vancouver’s West End for a good example (and Melbourne’s Docklands for a bad one). It’s also possible to build really crap low-density (I’m looking at you, Caroline Springs).

Density isn’t the issue. Design is. The sooner we all understand this, the better.