"We need a major shift in the way we look at public housing"

To help kick off our Social Housing Revival series, Peter Apps calls for a return to mass public house-building in cities around the world.What does the future hold for our major cities? Urbanisation has been one of the most important trends of the modern era. More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas – increasingly in large, very densely populated cities – and projections suggest this proportion will keep growing through to 2050.
But housing in urban centres