Revitalizing Multistorey Residential Towers

"With the Manchester architect Ian Simpson, whose adventurous designs are transforming a string of cities, Mr Smith is leading a counter-revolution against the trend for levelling tower blocks and replacing them with low-rise housing, once considered more popular.Like several other developers and housing associations, he argues that multistorey living only became unpopular because of poor system building in some areas - and poor maintenance and security elsewhere. "