The pressing need for parks

摘要

London's 'tall building problem' is more to do with planning and urban design than with architecture. And for residential and office towers, the problem is more to do with density, plot ratio and over-congestion of built form than with height per se. We want our city to look beautiful, but we also need it to work in a civilised way, and for that we need public space as well as buildings - public space that is not being delivered in most of the tall building projects currently proposed.