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The future of walkways in the sky

Updated on 29 May 2008

By Girish Juneja

Tomorrow an architectural prize will attempt to restore pride in the achievements of post war planners, More4 News reports.

Hated by many residents but loved by architectural historians, what will be the fate of the twentieth century tower block?

Mass housing estates were built in the 60s and 70s as utopian visions of space and order only for many of them to become victims of crime and social exclusion.

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