Municipal Dreams by John Boughton

Author:John Boughton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

For Coleman, the ideal was the two-storey house with garden. For those not so blessed, she concluded magnanimously that ‘living in a high-rise block does not force all its inhabitants to become criminals but’, she continued, ‘by creating anonymity, lack of surveillance and escape routes, it puts temptation in their way and makes it probable that some of the weaker brethren will succumb’.19

Coleman’s published study, Utopia on Trial: Vision and Reality in Planned Housing, didn’t identify individual estates, but Robin Hood Gardens in Tower Hamlets apparently scored fourteen (out of sixteen) on her ‘design disadvantagement’ scorecard.20 The American architectural historian and design theorist, Charles Jencks, criticised the estate’s rather narrow ‘streets in the sky’ as ‘dark, smelly, dank passage-ways, places where, as Oscar Newman has argued … crime may occur more frequently than elsewhere’.21

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