Given the many examples of architectural obesity in Sydney it is unclear if this is genuine market preference or simply developers’ risk-aversion that causes them to stick blindly with the proven sellers. Therefore, I thought alternative ways of designing and creating houses needs to be encouraged, especially given the issues relating to housing affordability, environmentalism and the way our poorly planned cities are dying from the outside in. Mortgage stress statistics show that salaries for those inside the western Sydney region have not increased enough to keep up with housing cost increases. A research paper issued by the Urban Research Program at Griffith University entitled Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City (Jago Dodson and Neil Sipe) 2005, highlights the fact that localities situated in the middle and outer suburbs of western Sydney are the most vulnerable to the socio-economic impact of oil price rises. In further research, based on the 2006 Census findings, the same authors noted the spread of the crisis creeping inwards from the urban fringes. They noted “a highly regressive pattern in which the impacts of higher fuel costs and increased interest rates fall on those with least capacity to absorb these impacts. The deficits in urban infrastructure and services meant the more vulnerable households had less ability to adapt to higher fuel costs by taking public transport.”