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Because Sydney barely had apartments until recently. Cross the bridge and it looks like a country village 3km from the city. Not many development sites and hous

Because Sydney barely had apartments until recently. Cross the bridge and it looks like a country village 3km from the city. Not many development sites and houses are very tightly held so it's tough to acquire houses for demolition and agglomeration into a development site. If Sydney is going to be a real city it needs the development that's happening now. I've also noticed cranes here are used for midrise apartment block construction which I'd never see for comparable building in the US. There's a lot of safety rules and a strict building code so maybe that's why.

alphaalpha101 9y ago
>If Sydney is going to be a real city it needs the development that's happening now. Or maybe you don't need skyscrapers and millions of people to be a 'real city'. Maybe if that's your idea of a 'real city', nobody needs to be a 'real city'. Maybe some people are okay with the idea of not having a ballooning population, especially given that fast-growing populations in the west are driven by high population growth amongst very poor underclass and high levels of Asian immigration, primarily?