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High Rise Dreams – the download

October 19th, 2011

I’m making this film available, it’s 220×176 and a 128Mb download.

Please right click and Save As, do not simply left click the link – if you simply left click the link then the download is likely to fail with a frozen browser on your screen, and consume unnecessary bandwidth.

High Rise Dreams.mp4

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High Rise Dreams – the download

October 19th, 2011

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Single aspect flats

Back to backs

Search

Paul Finch – CABE

Blogs I follow

Open Plan living

Sustaining Tower Blocks

The Case for Space

Room to swing a cat?

Deborah Orr

The Dispossessed

Tiny flats

I’ll be back (to back) . . .

Housing build quality

High rise retrofit

Estates

Hall of Fame

Hall of Shame

Ian Nairn

Public Housing

Reading list

The Welfare State

Archive

Categories

Calendar

Contact the blog