Opinion

Social housing’s ambivalent legacy

By and Alan Powers Alan Powers2007-05-18T00:00:00

Make’s scheme for First Base proposes a new town centre and civic “hub” forthe former Greenwich Hospital site.

The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings

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