Mary Drost’s work fostered civic pride and social cohesion and was a powerful antidote to the greed and short-sightedness that passes for much of modern planning policy.
The elderly owner of a rundown Sydney house surrounded by high-rise apartment buildings refuses to sell her humble home to developers for less than $20million - even as new residents bizarrely label her home an eyesore.
Sandwiched between a brand new shopping complex, train station and about three high-rise apartment blocks is a lonely rental on Walker Street in the north-west Sydney suburb of Rhodes.
When developers in the late 1960s snatched up land to extend the carpark of a shopping centre, they hadn t counted on a defiant woman who refused to sell her tiny weatherboard home.
The derelict Crystal Palace Subway is set to be restored to its former glory after £3.2million plans were approved to rebuild the Victorian structure in South London along with new walls and a roof.