Demolition should be the last resort for Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers – retrofit and upgrade instead
- Written by Nigel Bertram, Practice Professor of Architecture, Monash University
Investment in public housing is long overdue. But the current proposal to demolish all 44 of Melbourne’s social housing towers, relocate more than 10,000 residents and redevelop the sites is deeply flawed.
This blanket approach risks repeating the traumaticdislocation of vulnerable communities that happened when the towers were built more...





