Germaine Greer On Housing

31st July, The Guardian:

Because of the utter failure of high-rise accommodation in Britain, anyone who suggests, as I did in a recent BBC TV programme, that we will have to stop building out from our towns and cities and start building up, will be reviled as cruel and unimaginative. What would be cruel and unimaginative would be to build hundreds of thousands of "affordable" houses round thousands of cul-de-sacs barely big enough to accommodate the cars that will be parked there every night and all weekend, with no infrastructure, no schools, no shops, no health care facilties, no sports grounds - and poor drainage.