Building upwards not outwards is the way ahead, G. Greer

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Forget the high-rise slums of the past. Building upwards not outwards is the way ahead
Germaine Greer
Tuesday July 31, 2007
The Guardian

When Frank Lloyd Wright persuaded Harold Price in 1952 that what he wanted for his HQ was not 25,000 sq ft on three floors but 57,000 sq ft on 19 floors, the consideration that swayed Price and gave us the Price Building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was that the three-storey solution was wasteful. As soon as Lloyd Wright showed him how the delivery of all basic services, power, climate control, plumbing, communications, was simpler and more efficient via a central stack, Price, whose business was delivery of oil and gas via pipelines, saw his point...

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