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Yep, but crucially the Barbican was never envisaged as low cost social housing. It was, from initial concept, housing for the more well off, with world class concert halls, conservatories, shops, theatres, etc all built in.
It does prove though that high density housing doesn’ need to be poor quality housing
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Proof that if all the 60s housing estates were situated in prime real estate they'd have thrived.