Out of Sight, Out of Mind

The waterway is heavily shaped by the growth of the boom eras of Melbourne. Each booming cycle bore an antithesis to its vision, the burden of slums, drains and its requisite infrastructure. A hotbed for the things that the city wanted out of sight and out of mind.

The Dudley Flats was dismantled, in part, because the residents represented a level of accountability in an area devoid of it. They cannot live there “for their own good”, because that is where the city sends all its bilge.

As this area de-industrialises, this notion begins to break down. However, it is replaced with the insertion of highways. This is where the question comes in:

Can architecture force accountability?