The 1960s

• Sydney’s first high-rise apartments, Redfern’s John Northcott Place and William McKell Place, appeared on the Sydney skyline
• Housing Commission starts building its largest ever estate, Green Valley, to house 25,000 people in 6,000 new properties. The initial 940 dwellings were based on the American ‘Radburn’ model
• Mount Druitt surpassed Green Valley as the largest ever suburb built, with a population of 32,000 people housed in 8,000 new properties
• Townhouses used on estates for the first time rather than cottages – a medium density solution to reduce urban sprawl
• More flats were built in Sydney than cottages for the first time
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last modified: Monday, 8 January 2007