Blue-sky thinking comes down to earth

2006-04-07T00:00:00

Projects like these might look shiny and new, but is the fashion for high-density towers taking us back to an uglier time? Ellen Bennett investigates whether the government's call for developers to ‘pile 'em high and sell 'em cheap' is creating problems for the future

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