... Despite representing Melbourne’s largest scale example of post-war pre-fabricated systems architecture, the high-rise redevelopment project treats the public housing towers as disposable assets rather than historically significant structures. The absence of heritage protection reflects a reluctance to recognise public housing as part of the city’s cultural heritage.

The high-rise redevelopment reframes buildings that once embodied state-led social provision as obsolete infrastructure and a failed planning experiment, legitimising ‘slum clearance’ and creating what Lawrence J. Vale (2013) describes as ‘twice-cleared communities’, a term referring to a cyclical pattern of redevelopment in which the same sites undergo successive waves of mass displacement and clearance to enable new housing models....

... Instead of appealing to empathy in the protection of a vulnerable species, by positioning human beings as the keystone species, it posits us as fundamentally apart of nature, effected both positively and negatively alongside it. By using the framework of ecosystem services, which is designed to put a ‘human face’ on conservation, it can be demonstrated that environmental protection affects anyone who relies on clean water, breathable air, or a stable climate, providing a common language and goal for understanding...