Hazel Easthope talks about higher denisty living

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ny successful move toward mitigating climate change will demand a significant shift in what Australians consider to be normal housing.

Hazel Easthope - she helps us
 understand higher density living.

Presently, most Australians consider a house a free standing, detached building on an individual block, complete with generous yard space at both the front and the rear of the building.

Subsequently most Australian towns and cities are ringed by housing developments on their edges as what was once valuable farming land or equally valuable public open space vanishes as profit-hungry corporations move in to develop housing estates in peri-urban areas.

The geographically towns and cities or both energy intensive to create and live in and as climate change really begins to bite, Australians are going to need to live in a more high density fashion.

A Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre at University of New South Wales, Hazel Easthope talks about high density living on The Conversation, listen here - “Speaking with: Hazel Easthope on designing for high density living”.