"'Housing for dirty people' is back and I welcome it"

Deck-access housing has unfairly become a symbol for urban squalor in the UK, but a new wave of architects is demonstrating its merits, writes Rory Olcayto.As Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius convincingly argue in Tower Block, their 1994 book on post-war housing, there "has probably never been another feature in UK public housing which has been so widely criticised" as deck access to blocks of flats. Often called "streets in the sky", decks were a common means of separating pedestrians and