Against CABE

摘要

Early 20th-century america felt good about itself, so skyscrapers and functionalist villas became synonymous with success. Post-war Britain's council tenants were pleased with their spacious, sanitary and architecturally mediocre tower blocks, but by the 1960s and 1970s they were generally low-paid and hard done by. So, unsurprisingly, they looked on their system-built modernist flats as vertical prisons.