Tower Blocks

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Title Tower Blocks Objective To learn why
tower blocks were built in inner city areas and
whether they have been a successful form of
redevelopment. Key Words Comprehensive
Redevelopment Urban Renewal
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Why were tower blocks built?
Tower blocks were built in the 1960s and 70s to
help ease the problems of overcrowding within
inner city areas.
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Large areas of terraced housing was raised to the
ground and replaced by Tower Blocks.
This process was known as Comprehensive
Redevelopment areas of low quality buildings
were supposedly replaced by newer and higher
quality buildings
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Tower blocks were built close to the CBD they
were cheap to build and provided affordable
public sector housing for low income earners.
Building upwards instead of outwards also saved
on the amount of expensive land that was utilised.
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The first postwar estates were a massive advance
on the housing conditions for the majority of
working class people. They had separate
bathrooms, a 1951 census found 5 million people
across the country were still dependent on public
washrooms for baths. Many of the new estates
and tower blocks had central heating something
unheard of until then. They were spacious, in
fact 37 percent more spacious than the pre-war
low cost housing standards.
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Unattractive and soulless buildings
Inadequate for families
Problems with Tower Blocks
Feeling of isolation
Lack of open space
Cheap construction building deterioration.
Noise Pollution
Vandalism Neglect
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By the mid 1990s, many of the old tower blocks
were being demolished and the existing residents
re-housed.
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Areas where tower blocks once stood have
undergone a form of Urban Renewal. In some
cases, being replaced by buildings such as these
flats in Glasgow.
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The Future of the Tower Block
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There are over 4,000 tower blocks, homes for
perhaps 800,000 people. The Government forecasts
that 4.4 million new households may form in
England by 2016, and there is severe pressure
resisting further building on green-field sites.
Tower blocks may form a sustainable way of
living.
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