Rising High in Hobart

Tasmania's State Capital, Hobart is a city full of architecture styles spanning four centuries. This vantage point demonstrates many of the post 1960s modernist high-rise office buildings within the Hobart CBD. In some respects these series of buildings show Hobart 'coming of age' and becoming a 'city' in reaching for the sky. Although there may be reluctance of high-rise in favour of smaller "traditional" buildings, I believe that they are essential if urban sprawl/congestion/pollution is to be avoided. The other interesting thing about the photograph above is that the builds are all mostly from the 1960s/70s. To me the 1960s/70s (like the periods before it) demonstrate a sign of progress and of Hobart becoming a city. Although there must be protection of our built heritage, how much does this come at the detriment of modern urban designs being constructed?