Should we knock down history to build homes?

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Beschrijving

How do we preserve a city’s history while meeting the challenges of today?

Julian O'Shea explores some of Melbourne’s peculiar heritage sites to uncover the challenges of preservation in a time of housing need. From protecting the smell of the Vegemite factory, heritage listing a 1970s carpark and how a substation blocked over 100 apartments; who decides what we keep has a huge impact on the future of cities.

In this video we cover:

00:00 Heritage vs modern Australia
00:35 Apartments or old workshop?
01:30 The Heritage car park
02:05 Melbourne Shrine's invisible barrier
02:39 Vegemite protected smell
03:06 When buildings disappear
03:40 Substation beats housing
04:40 The facadism debate
05:40 Keeping a building's spirit
06:13 Preserving lost buildings
06:40 The current day dilemma

Credits:
Presenter and Producer: Julian O'Shea
Camera and Additional Production: Lewis Isaacs
Video Editing: Connor Fantasia-Serve
Commissioning Editor: Daniel Ahern

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