“A tower of unprecedented scale conceived not as a building so much as a vertical extrusion of the city…”
It is estimated that London will need to provide housing for almost 100 000 new people every year upto 2016¹.
This is the result not only of migration (internal and global) but also the need to replace existing housing stock that is reaching the end of its lifecycle.
The preferred method of dealing with housing need, and the one most likely to be employed in the near future, is to build low density commuter towns outside the metropolis. This method takes up a tremendous amount of valuable greenbelt or agricultural land and seems ever more inappropriate in the context of the need for a sustainable society. Read the full story
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