Australia is a nation of neighbours — but are we still good friends?

Urban planning across Australia faces a growing dilemma as cities rise up, expand outward, and fill in vacant spaces to accommodate increasing populations. The primary challenge involves managing high-density housing and urban development without eroding the traditional sense of social solidarity and neighbourly relations among residents.

As Australian communities experience these demographic and structural transformations, the core issue centers on how to sustain social cohesion and community connections amidst intensive urban growth and housing densification.