My parents' friends chatted on benches while we played, dressed up in stiff new coats on slides and seesaws, while the camera was raised to point at the flat towers of the Beresford.
At the front of each court was usually a pylon, a pair of broad, flat towers flanking the main gateway.
About 80 residents of the 142-flat tower block on All Saints Avenue have agreed to not move their cars from the tower block's existing car park if work starts on the development.
Jet Set Willy, in fact, was teeming with bugs, like some kind of programming version of a council flat in Tower Hamlets.
Much polemic against gentrification seems informed by a conviction that no social housing tenant would ever shop at a delicatessen or eat a panini, or has ever wished there were fewer bookmakers or pawn shops on their local shopping street, or been scared of their neighbours or found their concrete flat pack tower block to be not quite a piece of welfare state heaven on Earth.
This paper selected typical flat and tower residential buildings in Beijing, China, to assess comfortable outdoor wind environments in summertime.
The study models were selected typical flat and tower apartment residential housing in Korea; 54 cases were defined using an orthogonal array table based on experimental design.
The best seats, meanwhile, were free: the cramped balconies of the flats that tower over the east end – the east end which is just a wall.
One Chicago-based study looked at people allocated flats in tower blocks, some with trees and grass outside and some without.
Many locals are unhappy because, despite getting free flats in tower blocks on site, they fear being pushed out by gentrification.
Less than a mile away in south London, former council flats in tower developments are selling for little more than £100,000.
