A vast number of UK housing tower blocks arose from often ignoble motives and shaky logic, writes LSE professor Patrick Dunleavy Between 1945 and 1975, the UK built 440,000 high-rise flats for public ...
Good morning. The government has an ambitious housing target that would be easier to achieve if it could do two things: better support the construction of tower blocks, and dispel some of the fears ...
Erica Kuligowski is affiliated with the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) as a Section Editor for their Handbook of Fire Protection Engineering (Human Behaviour Section) and as a member of ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In JG Ballard’s 1975 novel High-Rise, residents of an upmarket tower block enjoy swimming pools and black-tie ...