Causes Of High Rise Buildings In Pyrmont

In Pyrmont, high rise buildings are everywhere and they are still being built continuously, even though the area is packed with buildings and the spaces between the buildings are very narrow. My focus questions relating to the spatial dimension concentrates on why the area is so dense and why high rise buildings were built. The results I have acquired are from local newspapers, which had reported about the history of Pyrmont and how it started developing into a high rise area, and from my observations of walking past the high rise building area.

Back in the 19th century, Pyrmont was considered a ‘slum area’ and so after World War II, when industries started to close, residents started to move to the suburb and Pyrmont’s population dropped