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London, 1972 – the city is growing, and with it the need to house working populations. Post-war values of social welfare make experimenting with new forms of housing possible, ushering in an era of modernist, utopian projects. Among the most daring and innovative was the Peter and Alison Smithson’s Robin Hood Gardens estate.
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00:16Yet another building site in the East End of London, an East End rebuilt almost out of recognition to those
00:22who knew it before the war.
00:24But this site is different. It's by Alison and Peter Smith's site, and inevitably, perhaps, it's very far from being
00:30just another lot of council flats.
00:52He's lived here as long as I've been here. He lives in 182, innit? What's your number? 181.
01:00I always get mixed up with that 181 and 182.
01:11The question that modern architects asked themselves was, can we make a better way for people to live?
01:39The question that's probably been there whose eyes are in the city, and there's been a lot of questions that
01:39haven't changed.
01:39The question that we're going to do is to let the New York Times have less than a 1001 other
01:44house today
01:44The question that we've chosen to receive is for a long-term concern, and the community in the city,
01:44is to turn into the city, and to respect the land of the people of the world.

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