The sheer volume of homes they built is impressive, a reminder of what can be achieved by mass house-building, freed of the planning system.
The new growth committee is packed with Tories seen as less sympathetic than Cable to hands-on intervention – such as business minister Michael Fallon and planning minister Nick Boles, who enraged nimbys last week by calling for a mass house-building programme.
Mass housing initiatives and individual "gentrification" of terraced houses tended equally to reduce population density.
Do the authors think these houses could percolate through into the mass housing market?
In the 1970s a mass housing development known as Thamesmead was erected there.
The experimental homes were built after World War II as prototypes for mass housing.
A large apartment block showcasing Le Corbusier's utopian aspirations for mass housing.
Still with housing, and in the week that Le Corbusier's famed Unité d'Habitation, the mothership of modern mass housing, caught fire, new buildings rose from the ashes of London's less successful experiment in mass housing, the Heygate Estate.
This béton brut (literally "raw concrete") was applied in his Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles - a hugely influential mass housing project.
Which is why, in many parts of the world, people are now demolishing these mass housing schemes".
They are not the world's worst mass housing, but I wouldn't want to live in one again.
