UNDERSTANDING THE HIGH-RISES
Background & Beginnings With the aim of improving living standards for the city’s poorest residents Victoria’s premier Albert Dunstan at the time vowed to renew areas of slums to provide adequate large and small scale. He was prompted to act after intense lobbying from Frederick Oswald Barnett, a frequent visitor to the slums who captured the appalling living conditions in suburbs like Carlton, North Melbourne and Fitzroy (Silva, 2020).
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Barnett stated, “If slum reclamation... achieves no more than the physical and moral salvation of the children in these areas, it will have more than justified any sacrifice involved” (Ministry of Housing and Construction, 1990).
indicate the areas which were identified as slums throughout Melbourne.
The building of the new social housing within Melbourne was partly sparked by improving conditions of the slums but also the concern of population in inner cities and to improve the local decline of retail in Inner city areas. slum reclamation and redevelopment with high density high rise flat development) would supply the much needed customer as well (Ministry of Housing and Construction, 1990). Left
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