The floors of a high-rise are divided according to the residents' incomes. The wealthy live at the top, while the poorer inhabitants reside below. When the middle and lower classes refuse to accept ...

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 ...

It has taken four decades for the dystopian satire of JG Ballard’s High-Rise to make it to the big screen. Unsurprising, perhaps, for what many had deemed an ‘unfilmable’ book in which a typical line ...

The residents of a state-of-the-art tower block succumb to a collective breakdown in Ben Wheatley’s ingenious adaptation of the JG Ballard novel In the 1970s, people called high-rise buildings slums ...

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 ...